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Adown the street cometh Robert Read, 
Gaily clad in his coat of red, 
With bell in hand, he loudly rings, 
And louder still he cries ; 

Attention, all ye of the Kin, 
The Reade Society summons you in, 
To join tts Festal Board 

And play your part." 

The fire burns on the hearth, 
A hand extends in welcome, 
Heart speaks to heart 

And the Clan it knoweth its own. 

He sounds his bell and cries, again and again : 

Attention, all ye of the Kin, 
The Reade Society invites you in." 

And the Secretary says-- Amen. 



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Reade Historical and Genealogical 
Association 

FIRST ANNUAL MEETING 
1904 

The "Reade Historical and Genealogical Association" was 
organized at Historical Hall, Taunton, Mass., July, 14, 1904, 
under the auspices of the Old Colony Historical Society, in ac- 
cordance with the custom of the Society to organize each year a 
family genealogical association. 

At both morning and afternoon sessions there was a large 
attendance of persons interested in the objects of the Association. 
Many have the family name, and almost all claimed descent from 
the worthy pioneers of the clan who crossed the Atlantic Ocean 
in the seventeenth century to make new homes in the Western 
wilderness. 

During the interval between the morning and afternoon 
sessions, a basket lunch was served, and a group photograph was 
taken on the steps of Historical Hall, which included many of the 
persons present at the meeting. This photograph is reproduced 
as the frontispiece of this publication. 

The order of exercises was as follows : 

MORNING SESSION 
Invocation - Rev. George Hale Reed, of Belmont. 
Meeting of the Old Colony Historical Society. 
Address of Welcome - Henry M. Lovering, of Taunton. 
Address of the Temporary President, Silas D. Reed, of Taunton. 
Adoption of Constitution and By-Laws of the Reade Historical and 

Genealogical Association. 
Election of Officers. 
Paper - "The English Ancestry of William Reade, who settled in 

Weymouth, Mass.- * * *." - by Edward F. Reed, of Boston. 

AFTERNOON SESSION 
Poem - - Miss Anna D. Reed, of Taunton. 
Address - Rev. James Reed, of Boston. 
Addresses - Chester A. Reed, of Dedham, Charles F. Read, of Boston. 

Hon. Milton Reed, of Fall River. William H. Reed, of. 

Weymouth, and others. 



The following Officers were elected for the year 1904-05: 

President 

Charlks F. Read, Boston 

Vice-Presidents 

Quincy L. Rked, So'. Weymouth Samuel H. Emery, Quincy, 111. 

Rev. James Keed, Boston Edward F. Reel, Boston 

Hon WALTKR A. Read, Providence, R.I- Almon Kead, Rehoboth 

Hon Warren A. Reed, Brockton William W. Reed, New Vork 

Alanson H. Reed, Wellesley Hills Ezekiel R Studlf.y, Rockland 

Rev George Hodges, D.D., Cambridge Henry B. Reed, So. Weymouth 

George F. Reed, Boston Hon. Horace Reed, Whitman 

Hon. Gforge E. Keith, Brockton Colton Reed, New York 

Hon Elisha T, Harvell, Rockland Frederick H. Reed, New York 

Chester A. Reed, Dedham Lewis B. Reed, New York 

Secretary Treasurer 

Joshua E. Crane, Taunton John C. Blanchard, So. Weymouth 

Executive Committee 
Hon. Silas Reed, Taunton Hon. George E. Keith, Brockton 

F. Arihur Walker, Taunton Josiah B. Reed, South Weymouth 

Iames M. Cushman, Taunton Charles F. Read, Hoston 

Elliott Washburn, M.D., Taunton James E. Seaver, Taunton 

William H. Reed, So. Weymouth George F. Reed, Boston 

At the close of the exercises the Association adjourned to 
meet in Boston, in October, 1905. 

POEM, by Anna D. Reed 

In peace and plenty lived our English sire 

In his ancestral home long time ago ; 
The landscape smiled, kinsfolk were near and kind, 

And pleasant memories kept his heart aglow. 
Why turned he westward when the twilight fell. 

As if he liked not in his house to dwell ? 

He held the faith which all his fathers loved. 
Its creed and precepts he had always known. 

He loved the Church, its worship and its forms, 
He loved its ritual —but he felt alone. 

He longed to follow that brave Pilgrim band 
Who sought for freedom in another land. 

He heeded not the tales of savage foes, 
Of cold, privation, homesickness, and toil ; 

The love of freedom ever lured him on 
Till a new home was his, on a new soil. 

He made the home his children have to-day. 
And in strong virtue led the way. 

Nor did the sharer of his English home, 

Our mother, Avis, linger by the way. 
She left her kindred dear, to hither come 

And breathe a freer air, and watch and pray. 
Shall we, their children, e'er forget the cost ? 

It what they sacrificed forever lost ? 



SECOND ANNUAL MEETING 
1905 

The Second Annual Meeting of the Reade Historical and 
Genealogical Association was held in Chipman Hall, Tremont 
Temple, Boston, October 12, 1905, in accordance with a notice 
mailed to each member. 

This meeting was held in Boston, following out the custom 
of holding gatherings of the Association in places where the early 
settlers of the name resided. 

There was a gratifying attendance at the meeting, and both 
morning and afternoon sessions were full of interest to those 

present. 

In the interval between the sessions, many of those in attend- 
ance had the pleasure of dining together at the Quincy House. 

The exercises of the day were as follows: — 
Invocation - Rev. George Hale Reed, of Taunton. 

Music. 

Report of the Secretary, Joshua E. Crane, of Taunton. 

Report of the Treasurer, John S. C. Blanchard of So. Weymouth. 

Report of the Executive Committee, Hon. Silas D. Reed, of Taunton. 

President's Address, Charles F. Read, of Boston. 

Music. 

Registration of Names. 

Report of Nominating Committee. 

Election of Officers for 1905-06. 

Music. 

Address, Hon. Milton Reed, of Fall River. 

INTERMISSION 

2 PM. Music. 

Poem. 

Report of the Reade Memorial Committee, William H. Reed, of South 
Weymouth. 

Paper, " Esdras Reade," Charles F. Read, of Boston. 

Music. 

The Officers of the preceding term were re-elected for the 
year 1905-06, with the following exceptions; The place of 
Samuel H. Emery, Esq., deceased, one of the Vice-Presidents, 
was not filled ; the Treasurer declining a re-election, Henry B. 
Reed was chosen to fill the vacancy. 

The Association adjourned to meet in South Weymouth, in 

September. 1906. 



THIRD ANNUAL MEETING 
1906 

The Third Annual Meeting of the Reade Historical and 
Genealogical Association was held in South Weymouth, Mass., 
September 27, 1906, in accordance with a notice mailed to each 
member. 

The meeting took place at the residence of Henry B. Reed, 
Treasurer of the Association, who had kindly offered the hospi- 
talities of his home for this gathering, at the meeting held in 
Boston a year ago. 

Morning and afternoon sessions were held, and between them 
the company present partook, in addition to a basket lunch, of 
the bountiful hospitality of the Treasurer and his accomplished 
wife. 

A showery day somewhat marred the pleasure of the occa- 
sion, but those present were gratified at its success. 

The exercises were as follows: — 

11 A.M. Reception at the home of Henry B. Reed. 

President's Address of Welcome, Charles F. Read, of Boston. 

Report of the Treasurer, Henry B. Reed, of So. Weymouth. 

Report of the Executive Committee. 

Report of the Secretary, Joshua E. Crane, of Taunton 

President's Address, with a sketch of the Reade Historical and Gen- 
ealogical Association, Charles F. Read, 

Registration of Names (see Afetnbers.hip Roll.) 

Report of the Nominating Committee. 

Election of Officers for 1906-07- 

Remarks, concerning a Memorial in honor of William Reade, an 
early settler of Weymouth (about 1650), by William H. Reed, 
of So. Weymouth. 

INTERMISSION 

2 P.M. Reception of the President-elect. 
Hymn - Miss Anna D. Reed, of Taunton. 
Paper.. Obadiah Read, of Boston, Charles F. Read. 
Remarks. The Abington Branch, William H. Reed. 
Paper. The Antiquity of Heraldry, with a Description of the Ancient 
Insignia of the Reade Family, Edward F. Reed, of Boston, 
(Paper now missing front our archives). 

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The following Officers were elected for the year 1906-07: — 

President 
Quincy L. Reed, So. Weymouth 

Vice-Pres ide n ts 
Rev. Jamhs Reed, Boston Edward F. Reed, Boston 

Hon. Walter A. Read, Providence, R.I. Almon Read, Rehoboth 

Hon. Warren A. Rked, Brockton William W. Rked, New York 

Alanson H. Reed, Wellesley Hills Ezekiel R. Studley, Rockland 

Rev. George Hodges, D.D., Cambridge Hon. Horace Reed, Whitman 

George F. Reed, Boston Colton Reed, New York 

Hon George E. Keith, Brockton Frederick H. Reed, New York 

Hon. Elisha T. Harvei.l, Rockland Lewis B. Reed, New York 

Chester A. Reed, Dedham Joshua E. Crane, Taunton 

Secretary 
Charles F. Read, Boston 

Treasurer 
Henry B. Reed, So. Weymouth 

Executive Committee 
Hon. Silas D. Reed, Taunton Hon. George E. Keith, Brockton 

¥. Arthur Walker, Taunton Josiah B. Reed, So. Weymouth 

James M. Cushman, Taunton Charles F. Read, Boston 

Elliott Washburn, M,I)., Taunton James E. Seaver, Taunton 

William II. Reed, So. Weymouth George F. Reed, Boston 



HYMN 

By Anna D. Reed 

Bright be the sun that shines to-day, 

And soft the airs that blow, 
And warm and true the loving hearts 

That beat with kindred glow. 

For we who meet are of one stock. 

The same forefathers claim, — 
And where we pitch our tent, the soil 

Owes to our sires its name. 

Our fathers, exiles from their homes. 

Found here a sheltering spot ; 
There dwelt the staunch old Puritans 

And faithful Huguenot. 

They loved the father-land they left 
For bleak New England's shore. 

But Freedom s priceless boon, and Faith's, 
They prized and honored more. 

Then let us still their acres keep, 

Their homestead let us hold, 
And guard the Freedom which they bought. 

With blood, and tears, and gold. 

And lighted by their guiding Star, 

We'll trace trie path tliey trod, 
And reverence our fathers' names, 

Because they walked with God. 



ROLL OF MEMBERS 



1906 



Atvvood, Mrs. Clara L. 
Bates, Mrs. Nathan G. 
Blackmer, Mrs. Catherine 
Blanchard, John S. C. 
Blanchard, Miss Mary L. 
Blanchard, Miss Susanna R. 
Bonney, Mrs. N. G. 
Briggs, Mrs. Viola D. 
Clarke, Arthur F. 
Clarke, Miss Helen G. 
Cook, Mrs. Aunis R. 
Darling, Mrs. Edward N. 
Dean, P. Evarts 
Emery, Samuel H. 
Farley, John W. 
Farley, Mrs. Mary E. Wells 
Field, Mrs Amelia C. 
Field, J. Howard 
Godfrey, Mrs. Jane 
Hallett, Mrs. Sarah N. 
Head, Mrs. Daniel J. 
Hodges, Miss Marv A. 
Horton, Dexter W. 
Horton, Henrv T. 
Howland, Mrs. W. H. 
Hubbard, Mrs. Clara I. 

Kendrick, Mrs. Clara E. 
Kimball, Miss Helen F. 
Lefferts, Marshall C. 
Lewis, James E. 
Lewis, Mrs. Josephine 
Matthewson, Mrs. Flora S. 
Mears. Mrs Betsey Z. D. 
Mears, John 
Perry, Mrs. Martha M. 
Pettee, Mrs. Georgiana E. 
Read, Charles F. 
Read, Miss Clara A 
Read, Miss Edith B. 
Read, Miss Ella H. 
Read, Miss Georgiana D. 
Read, Miss Harriet M. 
Read, Harold C. 
Read, Henry P. 
Read, Robert L. 
Read, William 
Reade, Charles H. 
Reade, Miss Emilie V. 
Reade, Philip 
Reade, William J. 



Reed, Alan son H. 
Reed, Albert M. 
Reed, Alfred F. 
Reed, Miss Almira H. 
Reed, Arthur 
Reed, Miss A. Julia 
Reed, Miss Blanche A. 
Reod, Charles F, 
Reed. Charles L. 
Reed, Edward F. 
Reed, Edward G. 
Reed, Francis 
Reed, Frederic H. 
Reed, George E. 
Keed, George F. 
Reed, Guilford S. 
Reed, Harold F. 
Reed, Henry B. 
Reed, Mrs. Henry B. 
Reed, James 
Reed, James H. 
Reed, John I). 
Reed, John L. 
Reed, John K. 
Reed, Josiah 
Reed, Josiah B. 
Reed, Lewis 
Reed, Marshall 
Reed, Mrs. M. A. 
Reed. Miss Nettie T. 
keed, Quincy L. 
Reed, Ralph 1). 
Reed, Reuben L. 
keed, S. Marshall 
keed, Warren A. 
keed, William E. 
Reed, William Ebenezer 
keed, William Howell, Jr. 
Reed, William Thomas 
Richards Mrs. Hannah R. 
Richards, Miss Harriet E- 
Kussell, Mrs. Louisa S. 
Scott, Mrs. Lydia E. k. 
Stearns, Mrs. A. P 
Stuart, Mr>. Carlotta M. 
Wales, Mrs. B. Reed 
Wales, Miss Ella S. 
Walker, V, Arthur 
Walker, George L. 
Washburn, Mrs. Grace B- 
White, Mrs . Louie D. 



FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING 
1907 



The Fourth Annual Meeting of the Reade Historical and 
Genealogical Association was held in the Memorial Hall of the 
Old Bridgewater Historical Society in West Bridgewater, Mass., 
on October 17, 1907. Rev. James Reed, of Boston, Vice-Presi- 
dent, presided on account of the recent death of Quincy L. Reed, 
of So. Weymouth, who was president at the time of his decease. 
The annual reports of Henry B. Reed, of South Weymouth, 
Treasurer, and Charles F. Reed, of Boston, Secretary, were 
read and approved, and showed that the membership and finan- 
ces of the Association were in a satisfactory condition. 

A historic gavel, to be used at meetings, was presented to 
the Association by Reuben L. Reed, of South Acton, Mass., a 
member. Mr. Reed gave the signification of each piece of wood 
of which the gavel is composed. The thanks of the Association 
were voted to Mr. Reed for his interesting gift. 

Following the presentation of the gavel the Secretary read an 
interesting letter from Col. Philip Read, Lowell, Colonel of the 
23d Infantry, stationed at the Jamestown Exposition. 

A report was made on the proposed memorial tablet to Wil- 
liam Reed, of Weymouth (1650). 

A memoir of Quincy L. Reed, late president of the Association, 
was read by his nephew, Joshua L. Crane, corresponding Secre- 
tary of the Old Bridgewater Historical Society and librarian of 
the Taunton Library. Rev. James Reed, of Boston, also gave 
an address on Rev. John Reed, D.D., of West Bridgewater. He 
was a graduate of Harvard College in 1739, and was a noted 
clergyman in his day. 

The following officers were then elected for the year 1907-08 : 

President. Rev. James Reed, of Boston 
Vice-Presidents, Same as in 1906 
Secretaries, Charles F. Read, of Boston 
Alanson H. Reed, of Boston 
Treasurer, Henry B. Reed, of South Weymouth 
Executive Committee, Same as in 1906. 

The last number on the program was a poem, " The Closing 
of the Year," by the late Thomas Buchanan Read, which was 
read by the Secretary, Charles F. Read. 

At the close of the meeting the large company present par- 
took of a basket lunch on the grounds surrounding the Memorial 
Hall. Charles F. Read, 

Si't retary. 
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JOHN REED ( 3 d), OF NORWALK, CONN., 1774 

In ye Name of God, Amen. I John Reed of Norwalk in ye County of 
Fairfield & Colony of Connecticut being advanced of years but of sound mind & 
Memory for which I give thanks to God, Do Make & ordain this my Last Will & 
Testament on this 18th day of February 1774 ordering & disposeing of such 
worldly goods & estate as divine providence hath Bestowed upon me in the 
manner following 

Imprimis— My Will is that my just debts & funeral charges be paid out 
of my moveable estate. 

Item — I confirm unto well beloved wife Mary according to ye written agree- 
ment come into with her before marriage. 

Item - I give & bequeath to my well beloved daughter Martha & to her heirs 
thirty pounds New York currency ye one half to be paid within six months after 
my decease & ye other half within twelve months. 

Item - I give & bequeath unto ye three children of my well beloved daugh- 
ter Esther thirty pounds New York Currency to be equally divided between 
them knowing it to be agreeable to ye desire of my said Daughter to constitute 
them my items in her stead to be paid according to ye Times set in ye Preceed- 
ing Legacy. 

Item — I give & bequeath unto ye children of my well beloved daughter 
,4«« dec'd viz : Eliakim, Anne, Abigail, Moses & Hannah, thirty pounds & New 
York Currency to be equally divided amongst them & said legacy to be paid out 
of my moveable estate so far as ye one half movables shall amount unto at ye 
apprizal & ye sum paid in moveables shall be set out unto the before mentioned 
Grand Daughters. 

Item - I give & bequeath to my well beloved son Thaddeus my wearing apparel 
a Great Bible ye one half of my dwelling house & Homested viz all my land ad- 
joining to and northerly of my house haveing already given ye other half to him 
by deed of gift. Also one Acre & an half of my meadow lying on ye west side of 
ye meadow which I lately gave him by deed of gift. Also my land which lyes 
south of & adjoining to ye Country Road, nearly opposite to ye dwelling house of 
Daniel Richards; also ye one half of my estate personal & real with half my 
right of commonage not yet disposed of. 

Item- I give & bequeath to ye two sons of my son John, deceased, ye 
remaining half of all my Estate not before disposed of, both personal real 'and 
right of Commonage to be so divided between them, as when their interest in their 
Father's estate is divided unto them, ye younger son Viz Moses shall be made 
equal with ye elder son John. 

Lastly - I ordain authorize and appoint my son Thaddeus my Executor to 
execute this my last Will & Testament revoking all former wills or testaments 
by me heretofore made in Testimony whereof I do hereunto set my hand & seal 
in Norwalk on ye day & date above written. 

JOHN READ, (Seal) 

Pronounced, published & declared, signed sealed & delivered in presence 
of us who sign in presence of ye Testator. Solomon Whitmore, 

Samuel Richards, Jr., Moses Mather. 

The Inventory was made iu 1776 bv Sam John 2 , m., 1687. Bliz. Tuttle- he d ab 1714 

Richards and En Read, and proved in Fair- John 3 , b. 1689 ; d. 1775. See wili above 

field, Conn, the same year See Reed-Read Lineage, Selleck's History 

The ancestral lines of John J are : of Norwalk, and History Reed Family 1861 

John 1 (immigrant), Providence, R.I., 1660 ; Daughters mentioned in John :, 's will not 

from Rje, N.Y., to Norwalk, Conn., 1684. mentioned by either of above authorities. 

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Number II. 1909. 

READE HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL 
ASSOCIATION. 



The sixth annual meeting of the Reade Historical and Genealogical 
Association was held at the American House, Boston, on Thursday, 
October 28, 1909. 

The " family " gathered at one o'clock, and a half hour was passed in 
social intercourse, a greeting being extended to all by the Rev. James 
Reed of Boston, President of the Association. 

Dinner was served in a private dining room after an invocation by the 
President. 

At the conclusion of the dinner, the President, with appropriate re- 
marks, welcomed those present to the Reunion, after which a business 
session followed. 

The annual reports of the Treasurer and Secretaries were read ; these 
showed that the past year had been a prosperous one for the Association. 

The officers for the past year were re-elected t<> serve for 1909-19 10. 

The report on the proposed Memorial to William and Avis Reade of 
Weymouth, prepared by the Secretaries, was read and accepted. It is 
printed in full in this issue of the Record. 

Remarks on the report and kindred topics were made by the Secre- 
taries, and Gen. Philip Reade, a Vice-President of the Association, read 
a paper entitled " By the Name of Reade." 

At the conclusion of the meeting the President expressed the hope 
that the Memorial to William and Avis Reade at Weymouth would be 
dedicated at the annual meeting in 191 o, and that the occasion would 
call together a large gathering of members and others interested in the 
name of Reade. 

Charles F. Read, 
Alanson H. Reed, 

Secretaries. 
Boston, ( Ictober 28. [Q< ><) 






lilt READE RECORD. 


















THE WILLIAM READE MEMORIAL. 

It had been confidently hoped until 
recently, that the proposed Memorial to 
William Reade oi Weymouth and his 
wife Avis would be placed this fall, at 
the annual meeting of the Reade Historic 
and Genealogical Association. 

The sum oi §130 of the necessary Si 50 
has been subscribed and the order placed 
for the memorial stone, lint Mr. George 
S. Stewart of Newton has called attention 
to some English records, of which further 
mention will be made later, which have 
convinced the officers of our association 
that it would be wise to defer the erec- 
tion of the Memorial until such time as 
additional information can be obtained. 
Heretofore' it has been supposed that the 
wife of William Reade bore the name of 
\\is Deacon prior to then marriage, and 
this statement is made in the Gene ilog} 
,.f William Readeol Weymouth, b) John 
L. Reed oi Baltimore, published 1902. 
But Mr. Stewart found in the published 
records of marrjages, in Somersetshire, 

England, in the Parish re I ol Long 

Sutton, the following entrj 



« Win. Rc- 



tie ana I 1 hipman Stli 



From this it will be seen that there is 
uncertainty as to the identity oi the wife 
of William Reade oi Weymouth, and 
for that reason it is much to be hoped 
that steps will be taken by his de 
ants to make an exhaustive search among 
the English records to obtain additional 
light on the matter 

'• William Reade of Weymouth and 
his Descendants" is the title of Chapter 
VIII, in the -'History of the Reade 
Family" published in 1S61 by Jacob 
Whitemore Reed. Fie states that Wil- 
liam Reade is supposed to be the son of 
William Reade and Lucy Henage his 
wife, and sailed from Gravesend in the 
County of Kent in the " Assurance de 
l.o "[from London] in 1635 and settled 



in Weymouth. In this statement he is 
followed by Mr. John L. Reed of Balti- 
more, in his work published 1902, and 
also by Mr. Edward F. Reed of Boston, 
who has devoted much attention to the 
genealogy of the Weymouth Reade fam- 
ily, and others of later date. But from 
the above entry in Long Sutton Parish, 
England, the indications are that this is 
a mistake, for he seems to have come 
not from Kent, but from Somersetshire, 
and it is certain that the widow of Wil- 
liam Reade of Weymouth bore the name 
of Avis, her Christian name. He prob- 
ably came to Weymouth about 1650, as 
the in si mention of his name found on 
the town records was in 1651. 

Asa 111.it t . ■ 1 oi 1. nt there was another 

William Reade who preceded him, com 
ing with his wife Susan and two chili In n, 
from this same Somersetshire in [I ;,, 
with the Rev. Joseph Hull and a large 
company of emigrants who settled in 
Weymouth, New England. Much con- 
fusion has resulted in genealogical re- 
s arch from the mixing of the records 
concerning these two Williams. But 1 el 
tain it is. that the William of Mr. Hull's 
company removed from Weymouth to 
Boston about the year 1(14(1. There he. 
became a member oi the First Chun h, 
and lived on a lot at the corner of what 
ivi Devonshire Street and Adams 
Square. His genealogical record is given 
in the "History of the Reade Family" 
by Jacob Whitemore Reed, Chapter 
II, p. 41, under the title of ■William 
Reade of Boston and His Descendants " 
But his fanciful parentage as ■■ the son 
of Richard Reade of Whittlesey in the 
Countv of Kent," F.ngland, and of his 
coming '-to America with Gov. Winthrop 
in 1630," may safely be disregarded, as 
well as the statement that he died on his 
homeward passage from Ireland in 1667. 
He lived some years after that in Boston, 
but the place and date of his death is un- 
known. He left no descendants in Wey- 
mouth as far as known. 












IIII READE RECORD. 



William Reade of Weymouth —the 
second of that name to settle there 
died some time prior to the year [660, 
as the town records of that date make 
mention of the widow Avis Reade, but 
the exact time of his death is unknown. 
He was the progenitor of the large and in- 
fluential Weymouth branch of the Reade 
family. 

That William Reade who came to 
America in the " Assurance de L6 " 1 Lon- 
don 1 in [635, and a numerous company 
of other emigrants, and among them one 
Thomas Deacon, age 19, are all exgi 



Alice; so in all probability no oni ol diem 
evet saw either of the William Reades 
who went to Weymouth and Boston. 

If it be true that the spirits of those 
gone before us •■ keep tabs'" 011 the pro 
ceedings of their descendants, they must 
nused and fretted, and perhaps at 
time-, disgusted, at the general •• mix-up " 
>i| family relations in the efforts made to 
place each person in a true genealogical 
record and to give even a brief account 
of his time and doings. Hut if they 
won't come forward and help us. we 
have to do the best we can and let it go 



tor Secretaiy. 



!n Honor Of 
'iluam And Avis reade 

Whc Sailimg From England 

About a.D.igso 

Settled In This Town 

And Were The Ancestors 

Of A Numerous Posterity 

This Memorial Erected 

By THE READE HISTORY 

AN0 GENEALOGICAL ASSOCIATE 

ANN DOMINI 19H 




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REPORT. 

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Reade Dis- 
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THE READE RECORD. 



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THE WILLIAM READE MEMORIAL. 

It had been confidently hoped until 
recently, that the proposed Memorial to 
William Ki \i>k of Weymouth and his 
wife Avis would be placed this fall, at 
the annual meeting of the Reade Historic 
and Genealogical Association. 

The sum of S130 of the necessar) Si 50 
has been subscribed and the order placed 
for the memorial stone. But Mr. George 
S. Stewart of Newton has called attention 
to some English records, of which further 
mention will be made later, which have 
convinced the officers 
that it would be wise 
tion of the Memorial 
additional information 
Heretofore it lias been 
wife of William Readf 
Avis Deacon prior to 
this statement is made 
of William Reade of \ 
L. Reed of Baltimoi 
But Mr. Stewart foui 
records of marriages. 
England, in the Par 
Sutton, the following 

•■ Win. Reede and 
Oct. 16 

From this it will ! 
uncertainty as to the 
of William Reade 
for that reason it is 
that steps will be ta 
ants to make an exh; 
the English records 
light on the matter 

" William Reade 
his Descendants " i: 
VIII, in the " Hi 
Family " published 
Whitemore Reed. 
Ham Reade is supp 
William Reade ar 
wife, and sailed fri 
Count v of Kent in 
L6 " [from London 



in Weymouth. In this statement he is 
followed by Mr. John L. Reed of Balti- 
more, in his work published 1902, and 
also bv Mr. Edward F. Reed of Boston, 
who has devoted much attention to the 
genealogv of the Weymouth Reade fam- 
ily, .ind others of later date. But from 
the above entry in Long Sutton Parish. 
England, the indications are that this is 
a mistake, for he seems to have come 
not from Kent, but from Somersetshire, 
and it is certain that the widow of Wil- 
liam Reade of Weymouth bore the name 
of Avis, her Christian name. He prob- 






T HE R E A D E RECORD. 



William Reade of Weymouth — the 
second of that name to settle there — 
died some time prior to the year 1660, 
as the town records of that date make 
mention of the widow Avis Reade, but 
the exact time of his death is unknown, 
lie was the progenitor of the large and in- 
fluential Weymouth branch of the Reade 
family. 

That William Reade who came to 
America in the " Assurance de Lo " (1 on- 
doni in 1635, and a numerous company 
of other emigrants, and among them one 
Thomas Deacon, age 19, are all expressly 
declared "to be transported to Virginea." 
And that Avii Deacon who came to 
America a few months earlier in 1(135. 
aged 19, in the ship Alice with other 
emigrants, is also expressly declared " to 
be transported to Virginea" 

Although at one time Xew England 
territory was included under the name 
Virginia, that such was not intended in 
the entries above is plainly shown from 
the fact that five other ships left the 
same date, July 13. 1635, from the same 
port, "y e port of London." and in all 
these five ships it is expressly declared 
that their passengers are " to be trans- 
ported to New England" thus showing 
that the difference in localities was dis- 
tinctly recognized by different names. 
William Reade and wife Mabel who came 
in July, 1635, from the port of London, 
and settled in Woburn, are declared •• to 
be transported to New England." Wil- 
liam Reade, the first who departed from 
the port of Weymouth. England, March, 
[635, in the company of the Rev. Joseph 
Hull and settled in Weymouth, New En- 
gland, as stated above, is expressly de- 
clared in the shipping list to be "Bound 
for New England." Certainly in view oi 
these facts, it is not unreasonable to con- 
clude that ■■ Virginea " meant the Planta- 
tion to the south of New England, and 
that thither went the William Reade and 
Thomas Deacon of the ■■ Assurance de 
L6" as also the Avis Deacon of the ship 



Alice: so in all probability no one of them 
ever saw either of the William Reades 
who went to Weymouth and Boston. 

If it be true that the spirits of those 
gone before us "keep tabs" on the pro- 
ceedings of their descendants, they must 
be amused and fretted, and perhaps at 
times disgusted, at the general •■ mix-up " 
of family relations in the efforts made to 
place each person in a true genealogical 
record and to give even a brief account 
of his time and doings. But if they 
won't come forward and help us. we 
have to do the best we can and let it go 
at that ! 

Alaxson 11. Reed, Junior Secretary. 
1909 

AN ENGLISH RESEARCH FUND. 

A perusal of the foregoing report ought 
to convince all descendants of William 
and Avis Reade of Weymouth that gen- 
ealogical research should be made in 
England to determine the parentage of 
Avis, wife of William Reade, so that 
when a Reade .Memorial is erected in 
Weymouth, it will have a record true 
in all detail. 

To this end, therefore, and with the 
approval of the offin ers of the Associa- 
tion, subscriptions are solicited for an 
English Research Fund. 

Subscriptions of am amount may be 
mailed to the undersigned, in the en- 
closed envelope, and it is desirable that 
the response may be prompt so that the 
work may begin at an early date. 

Charles F. Read, Senior Secretary. 

SECOND TRIENNIAL REPORT. 

It is expected that the second issue of 
the Triennial Report of the Reade His- 
torical and Genealogical Association will 
be published early in the coming year. 

It will contain reports of the last three 
meetings of the Association and genea- 
logical papers of interest, and it is hoped 
that members will contribute to its con- 
tents. 



TIIK RKADK RK('ORI). 



Zbc IReafce IRecorfc. 



ship certificate showing the Reade Coat 

of Arms in colors and duly signed by the 

officers, and with it (until the edition is 
Published by the 

Reade Historical and Genealogical Association. exhausted) a COpy of the First Triennial 

Report ol the Association. 

Join at ome. and In your personal in- 
fluence assist in making the Association 
larger in membership, and as zealous in 
genealogical research as it is proud of its 
family historj 

Remittances of the membership fee 
should be sent to CHARLES K. READ, 
Senior Secretary R. II. X (i A., Old 
State House, Boston, Mass. 




Officers elected October 28, 1909. 

President. 



Rev. Fames Kin 



Boston. 



Vice-Presidents. 

1 1, .n. \V\kren A. Reed, Brockton. 

Gen. Philip Reade, . . Boston. 

Edward F. Reed, . . Everett. 

Iohn S. C. Blanchard, So. Weymouth. 

Hon. Silas I>. Reed, Taunton. 

Joshua E. Crane, . . Bridgewater. 

William II. Rf.kd, . . So. Weymouth. 



Treasurer. 
Henry I'.. Reed, . . . 

Secretaries. 
Charles F. Read, . . 
Alanson II. Reed, . . 



So. Weymouth, 

Rrookline. 
Wellesley. 



I 1 is hoped that those receiving the 
Reade Record, but who are not members 
of the Reade Historical and Genealogical 
Association, will take membership, which 
they can do by sending St. the admission 
fee. or Sio for Life Membership, without 
any further assessments. 

Persons becoming members will re- 
ceive, without extra expense, a member- 



Annual Meetings. 

Six annual meetings of the Reade 
Historical and Genealogical Association 
have been held, as follows : 

Taunton, Mass, Inly [ (, 1904. 
Boston, Mass . < Ictober 12, 1905. 
South Weymouth, Mass., Sept. 2j, 1906. 
Wist Bridgewater, Mass, Oct. 17, 1907. 
Boston, Mass, Octobei 28, 190S. 
Boston, Mass., Octobei 28, 1909. 

It is hoped to hold the annual meeting 
in 1910 in South Weymouth, Mass. and 
at that time to dedicate a Memorial to 
William Reade of Weymouth, and Axis 
Reade, his wife. 

It has become the custom to hold the 
annual meetings of the Association in 
Eastern Massachusetts, and in further- 
ance of this plan arrangements should 
be made, possibly in 191 1, to hold a 
meeting in some town in Middlesex 
County in which there were early settlers 
of the name of Reade. 



Genealogical data of much value re- 
garding Reades of various branches has 
been published in the Genealogical De- 
partment of the Boston Transcript dur- 
ing the present year. These surely ought 
to help straighten out some of the Reade 
tangles. 



I 1 1 E K E A 1 ) E RECORD. 




I . I I'll! I ! r !\ I \ HI 

Second Vice President of tli :' irical and 

i logical -A i iation. 



The following annual members have 
been recently transferred to life member- 
ship : 

Marshall C. Lefferts, New York, 

Miss Clara A Read, New Bedford. 

Miss Sarah E. Read, Boston. 

William A. Read, New \ ork. 

Rev. James Reed, Boston. 

William B. Reed, New \ ork. 

Mrs. Katherine Waterman. Providence. 

The following persons have become 
members of the Association since the 
last issue of the Reade Record : — 

Miss Helen Leah Reed, Cambridge. 

Francis P.. Reed, East Weymouth. 

Burton F. Reed, Boston. 

David F. Read, Bridgeport, Conn. 

fosiah B. Reed, Providence, R. I. 

Miss I lien A Reed, New 1 laven, < ionn. 

Aaron A. Reed. Whitman 

Charles K. Reed, Won ■ stei 

Harmon P. Read, Albany, N. V. 

Theron S. Gurney, Hart, Mich. 

Miss Elizabeth Reed, Boston. 



Dr. J. Howard Reed, New York. 
Sylvan us A. Reed, New York. 
l.unes R. Read, Providence, R. I. 
Frank II. Reed, West Mansfield. 
Eugene W. Reed, North Brookfield 
|osi |'li M Ri i d, Roi kpon 
William 1 Champion, Jr.. Boston. 
Alvan T Reed, South Weymouth. 
Albert E. Read, Pittsburgh, Pa. 
Frederick E. Reed, Thompson, Conn. 
Mi" Julia I Reed, Baltimore, Md. 



GEORGE READ, 

Signer of the Declaration of Independence. 
I leorge Read was born in Cecil County. 
Mil . September [8, 1733. and died in New- 
castle, Del., September 21, 1798. After 
receiving a suitable education, he was ad- 
mitted to the Bar when nineteen years of 
age, and began the practice of his profes- 
sion in Newcastle, Del. Holding political 
office in the Colony before the Revolution, 
he was a member of the Continental Con- 
gress from 1774 to 1777. and also of the 
Convention which framed the Constitu- 
tion of the United States in 1787. 

In 1776 he was President of the Con 
vention which adopted the Constitution 
of Delaware, being the author of that 
document, and he was also Vice Presi- 
ident of the State of Delaware, and Act- 
ing President during a portion of his term 
of office. He was United States Senator 
from Delaware from 1789 to 1793. and 
from that time until his death, Chief Jus- 
tice of that State. 



That is an interesting story that the 
■Marquise de Fontenoy " tells in the 
Boston Herald of December 1. 1909, 
regarding the " skeleton in the family " 
of the late Sir John Chandos Reade of 
Shipton Court. Oxfordshire, England. 

It is to be hoped that the present 
baronet, Sir George Compton Reade, now 
a resident of Howell. Mich., will regain 
by successful litigation all right and title 
to the ancestral seat of the family. 



Til E RE A HE RECORD 



FAMILY RELICS. 

We have received the following inter- 
esting account of certain Family Relics, 
highly valued by their owners. 

My great-grand-parents were Jacob 
Porter, a descendant of Richard, oi Wey- 
mouth, and Rachel Reed, a descendant 
of William Reade of the same town. 
They were married June 6, i 763. 

They had ten children, my grand- 
mother being the youngest child, Olive 
Porter. They lived first at Abington 
and then at Cummington, Mass. I have 
been the fortunate one of the descend 
ants of Rachel Reed, being the p issessoi 
0) a china bowl used at her wedding and 
a book given her as .1 present, about 
which we have an interesting Stor) 
handed down; that there was a full set 
,,| Looks, one volume of whii h was given 
to each of Rachel's brothers and 51 
at time ol" their marriage. The book I 
have is stamped on the back ■• Henry's 
Commentary." Vol. 4. Tin- only date it 
bears is at the end of the Preface, "Jul) 
1 s, 1712." The Preface is signed by 

the letter- - M. H." The book b 
at Isaiah and ends with Malachi. It is 
leathei covi red, and 9 b) 14 inches in 
I should be glad to hear from any 
on, who ma) be the present possessor of 
any of the other volumes. The china 
bowl is about 10 inches across at the top 
and 3 or 4 at the bottom, with a green 
spray. About half way from top to bot- 
tom is a leaf split at the stem end. the 
upper half green, the lower a light yel- 
low. Most people call it a punchbowl. 

1 heard when a small child that Rachel 
Porter's eldest son was killed by a tree 
falling on him in the wootls. In his 
pocket was a knit purse with a paper 
two-thirds of a dollar dated 1776. both 
puise and money were kept by her. then 
by grandmother and mother, and the 
money I still have in perfect order. 

Miss M Emilv Eastman", 

Westfield, Mass. 



A Partial List of Reade Genealogies. 

mtinved. 

Reed-Read Lineage, [660-1909. Cap- 
tain John Rei d . il Prot idence, K. 1 . and 
Norivalk. Conn., and his descendants, 
through his sons. John and Thorn. 1-. 
1660-1909, by Ella l<< :d \\ right, Water 
Inn \ . Conn., 19 19 

Seth Read, Lt. Col. Continental Army. 
Pioneei at Geneva, N. \ '.. 1 787, and at 
I 1 ie. Pa., 1 70; I lis An. estors and De- 
si endants, b) his greal gi and-daughter, 
Ma) I lunter Buford Boston, 1895. 



TRADITIONS. 

I he Seen taries of the Association 
would be glad to 1 ei f is e from time to 
time for publication, original contribu- 
tions regarding Reade family traditions 
and folk lore, especially of the earl) 
erations oi those bearing the name in any 
of its various spellings in this country. 
Traditions of this kind, often come down 
in 1 ollateral brani hes ; such will be espe- 
cially welcome. 

.such contributions cannot fail to make 
the Reade Record more interesting and 
ai 1 ep table to us r.adeis, and also 1 reate 
an interest in the Reade Historical and 
1 ',i u ilogical Assoi iation that will insure 
intinucd prosperity. 



The Senior Secretary would be glad 
to receive a few copies of the Reade 

I' 1 issued one year ago, should there 

be any in the hands of those who do not 
care to retain them. The edition is ex 
hausted and there are calls for copies at 
the present time. 



Extra copies of the Reade Record will 
be sent to members on application to the 
Senior Secretary, or to non-members on 
receipt of ten cents in stamps for each 
copy ordered. 



T 1 1 1". K E A 1 ) E RECORD. 



QUERIES. 

Thi: Secretaries of the Reade Histori 
cal and Genealogical Association cannot 
undertake to make genealogical researi li. 
but Queries will be inserted in its publi- 
cations. Queries should be written in 
concise form to insure publication. 



Wanted — The ancestry of James Read, 
who settled in Cambridge. Mass., about 
the year 1705. and lived near the meet- 
ing house. He was a tanner by trade, 
and died in Cambridge, May 6, 1734. 
William Read, 
89 Appleton Street, 

Cambridge, Mass. 



Wanted — The ancestry of Robert 
Read, who was born about 1741. and is 
first heard of in, or in the vicinity of, 
Wilmington, Del. He married Sarah 
Greene, about 1777, and their children 
were Sarah. Rachel, Joel, Achsa, Re- 
becca, Mary and Elizabeth. Robert 
Read removed from Delaware to I >hio 
about the year 181 5. 

Mis. Emma Read Akin. 

64 West 49th Street, 

New York, X Y. 



-j =,.oo will be paid I'D" satisfactory- 
proof of the ancestry of the wife of the 
Rev. Solomon Reed, Pastor of the Second 
Congregational Church of Framingham, 
Mass. He was later Pastor of the Titi- 
cut Parish, Middleborough, Mass. He 
married, while at Framingham, Miss 
Abigail Stoughton. Houghton or Hor- 
ton, of Connecticut. Which surname is 
the correct one ? 

For further information apply to the 
Senior Secretary . 



Samuel 2 Read (John 1 ) had two wives, 

I leborah and Abigail White. Which 

wife was the mother 11I Deacon Samuel' 
Read? If it was Deborah, what was her 
maiden name ? 



Samuels Read, (Samuel, 2 John 1 ), mar- 
ried Hopestill Holbrook. Am I right in 
my theory that the latter was .1 daughter 
of William 2 Holbrook (Thomas 1 ), of Wey- 
mouth and Mendon? 

R. T. Cross, 

Fort Collins. Colo. 



Wanted — The ancestry of Mary Reed, 
who became the second wife of Henry 
Prentice, in Hancock, X. H., about 1790. 
Their children were Mary, Jonathan 
Reed. William Henry and Sarah. 
C. G. Hubbard, M. D., 

Howell. X. V. 

COATS-OF-ARMS. 

Tin: assumption of a Coat-of-Arms 
seems to have become the habit of Amer- 
ican Family Associations: for, despite 
the fact that very few persons in this 
country are entitled to the use of such 
Arms by direct descent from an original 
owner, no well regulated Family Associa- 
tion seems to be without one, which is 
displayed on all possible occasions. 

The Coat of-Arms used by the Reade 
Historical and Genealogical Association 
was adopted at its first meeting in Taun- 
ton, Mass.. in 1904; possibly it serves 
its purpose, but it is interesting to see 
from time to time other Reade Coats-of- 
Arms, some of which are totallv different 
from those with which we have become 
familiar. Arms are personal property, 
and mere identity of surname carries no 
armorial right. 

It would therefore be interesting to 
111. ike a study of the subject, showing the 
armorial bearings of the various families 
of the name in England, and their con- 
nection, if any, with those which Amer- 
can families have adopted. 

With this end in view, it is hoped to 
show ill future issues of the Reade 
Record other Coats, and brief articles 
oil the subject will be welcomed by the 
Si 1 retaries from contributors. 



T II E R E A I> E RECORD. 



RECENT DEATHS. 
Georgiana Delancy Read, M. D. 

Georgiana D. Read, M. D., died in 
Providence, R. I., August 21, 1908, at 
the age of sixty-six years. After gradu- 
ating at the Providence High School, 
she was successivelv a teacher and a 
nurse, and later received the degree of 
M. D. at the New York School of Home- 
opathy. She was then in general prac- 
tice in Providence for five years, and 
was later connected with medical insti- 
tutions in Brooklyn and Minneapolis. 
During the last fourteen years of her 
life she was resident physician at the 
Moses Brown School in Providence. She 
was a member of the Association at the 
lime of her death. 



( iation from its formation in 1 . ,- 4 to 

within a few months of his death, when 
he resigned on account of failing health. 



Miss Anna Dennis SpROOT Rl 1 D 

Miss Anna Dennis Reed, as she was 
called, died in Taunton. Mass., Di 
ber 6, 1909. at the great age oi ninety- 
six years. 

Miss Reed was lor mam years .1 
teacher, and in her later life conducted 
a private school in Taunton. She was 
interested in the genealogy ol the Reade 
family, and while she did not join the 
Association, showed her interest in its 
objei ts liv writing a poem and hymn for 
the first two meetings of the Association 
in Taunton and Boston. They were pub 
lished in the first number of the Reade 
Triennial Issue in [907, and we reprint 
the poem in this number of the Record. 



George Fi.knai.I) Reed. 

George F. Reed died at his home in 
Wellesley, Mass., August :;. 1909, at the 
age of forty-six years. He was in the 
grain exporting business in Boston for 
many years, and was a prominent mem- 
ber of the Boston Chamber of Com- 
merce. He was a member of the Asso- 



Jolm R. Reed of Westfield, Mass. 
who was a member of the Association, 
died November it. i<ioX. 



Mis. Jane Reed Godfrey of Lakeville, 

Mass.. who was a member of the .Asso 
ciation, died December 29, i>)07. 



POEM 

By Miss \\ \ \ In wis Kmh 

[Written tor iht- Reade Meeting, 1904.] 

1\ peace and plentj lived our English sire 
In his ancestral home, long time ago; 

: led, kinsfolk wi re m i and 
kind, 

And pleasant me lies kept Ins hi arl 

Why turned he westward when the twilight lei!. 
\s it he til house to dwell 

lie held tin- i.nth which all his fathers loved, 
Its creed and precepts he had always known. 

Hi loved I he l hurch, its worship and ts 1 

I [< lo> ed its ritual but he felt alone. 

lie longed to follow tint brave Pilgrim hand 

Who sought foi tnrd, ,in in another laud. 

: Led not I he tale ; oi sa\ ag 

' H ' "1 1. privation, I lesickness and toil : 

I he love oi freedom evei lured him on 

till .1 Hew home Was his, en .1 new .eil 

11- in de the home Ins children have to-daj 
And in strong led the 






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Number III. 1910. 



READE HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL 
ASSOCIATION. 

Boston, Mass., October 28, 1910. 

The seventh annual meeting of the Reade Historical and Genealogi- 
cal Association was held at the Old Belfry Club, Lexington, Mass., on 
Friday, October 28, 1910, at n A.M. 

The meeting was called to order by the President, Rev. James Reed 
of Boston, who gave a cordial greeting to those present. 

The annual reports of the Secretaries and the Treasurer were read 
and accepted ; they showed that the Association had prospered during 
the past year and was anticipating fruitful genealogical work in the 
future. 

The Senior Secretary read a letter from Mr. J. Gardner Bartlett, of 
the Committee on English Research of the New England Historic Gen- 
ealogical Society, giving a plan of procedure advisable to ascertain, if 
possible, the authentic record of the English ancestry of William Reade 
of Weymouth and Avis his wife. The letter was accepted and is printed 
in part in this issue. 

The Senior Secretary exhibited two charts showing the recorded 
events in the lives of " William Reade of Batcombe, England," and 
"William Reade of Weymouth," endeavoring thereby to correct the pre- 
vailing confusion regarding these two English emigrants of the first 
generation in New England. 

The Senior Secretary reported that nine life members and twenty-one 
annual members had been added to the Association during the past year. 

It was the sense of the meeting that the William and Avis Reade 
Memorial at Weymouth be dedicated at the next annual meeting of the 
Association. 

At the conclusion of the business, a basket luncheon was served, 
which was enjoyed by all present. 

Charles F. Read, 
Alaxson H. Reed, 

Secretaries. 



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THE READE RECORD. 



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READE, READ, REED. 

New England Inhabitants of the Name, 
i 630- 1 700. 

By George S. Stewart and Alanson H. Reed. 

Abbreviations : — adm., admitted ; b., born ; 
m., married; d., died ; dep„ deposition ; frm., 
freeman; rem., removed; ret., returned; ; w., 
wife. 

1. Mr. Thomas, of Wickford, Essex, 
Eng. Here 1630; w. Priscilla (Banks) 
b. 1613; frm. Apr. 1, 1634: granted 300 
acre farm at Salem, 1636; Ensign and 
Capt. ; ret. to Eng., Col. in Parliament, 
army; d. [662 in Eng. No descendants 
in this country. 

2. William, of Batcombe, Somerset, 
Eng.; tailor; b. 1607. In Weymouth. 
Mass., 1635-1644: frm. Sept. 7, 1635; 
rem. to Boston: w. Susanna (Haynes) 
d. Oct. 12, 1653: m. (2) Ruth Crooke; 
rem. from Mass. 1674. Ancestor of 
many N. E. families. 

3. Robert, of Boston, Mass., 1635. 
shoemaker. Rem. to Exeter, N. H.; 
frm. Apr. 17, 1644 : ret. to Boston where 
w. Hannah d. June 24, 1655; m. (2) Su- 
sanna: drowned near Hampton. N. H., 
Oct. 20, 1657. No surviving male issue. 

4. William, with w. Mabel came in 
the Defence, 1635, x. 48, settled at Dor 
Chester; frm. Mar. 14, 163S-9; rem. to 
Scituate and thence to Muddy River 
(Brookline); bought estate in Woburn, 
1648; ret. to Eng. and d. 1656 at New- 
castle-on-Tyne ; wid. Mabel m. Henry 
Somers of Woburn. Ancestor of the 
Woburn Reeds. 

5. William, a passenger in the Ex- 
pectation 1635, from London to the Isle 
of Providence, a;. 16. 

6. Thomas, of Salem, Mass., 1636, 
planter; adm. inhabitant Apr. 10, 1637; 
w. Sarah adm. to Church Feb. 7, 1640; 
2d w. Mary adm. to Church, 1649; d. in 
Salem ; admin, to wid. Mary, June 25, 
1667. Ancestor of the Salem Reads. 



7. John, of Weymouth, Mass., 1637- 
39, planter ; w. Sarah, dau. of Will. Les- 
sie, '■of Blyborough, Suffolk, Eng."; 
rem. to Mt. Wollaston (Braintree) ; grant- 
ed 44 acres there for 11 heads, 1640: 
frm. May 13, 1640; rem. to Rehoboth, d. 
Sept. 7, 1685. Ancestor of the Reho- 
both Reads. 

8. Esdras, tailor, granted lot at 
Muddy River (Brookline) for 4 heads, 
Dec. 24, 1638: rem. to Salem; adm. to 
Church with w. Alice 1640; frm. June 2, 
1 '141 : rem. to Wenham 1644. to Chelms- 
ford 1655, and to Boston 1658; was "of 
Woburn" with w. Sarah 1670: ret. to 
Boston and d. July 27, 16S0. Ancestor 
of many Boston Reads. 

9. MATTHEW, servant of Charles 
( iott, Salem, 163S. 

10. Philip, of Weymouth, Mass., 
1641 ; d. Feb. 29, 1675-6; will prov. 
May 5, 1676, names w. Mary, son Philip, 
son-in-law John Vining and bro. Thomas 
Dyer. 

11. ZACHARY, landowner in Wey- 
mouth, Mass. 1642-4. 

12. Benjamin, of Duxbury, Mass., 
i643- 

13. Thomas "Red," of Watertown, 
Mass.; apprentice of Thomas King with 
2 years more to serve, Dec. 24, 1644. 
Possibly identical with Thomas of Sud- 
bury, 1655 (No. 20). 

14. William, of Stratford, Ct., before 
1650; rem. to Norwalk and d. abt. 1659. 
Descendants at Fairfield and Redding, 
Ct. 

15. Zacheus, of Boston, Mass., 1650, 
mariner on the Unicorn, Capt. Isaac Ad- 
dington. 

16. William, of Weymouth, Mass., 
1 651; frm. May 18, 1653; d. abt. 1657; 
wid. Avis of Weymouth 1658, living 1670, 
Ancestor of many Weymouth families. 

17- John, of New London, Ct., 165 1, 
forfeited his grant. 

18. Thomas, ae. abt. 22 ; dep. Aug. 2, 
1652 abt. Capt. Archibald Henderson of 



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Boston, Mass. (Mass. Arch., Vol. B 38, 
p. 87.) 

19. John, came in the Trades In- 
crease; apprenticed for g yrs. to Michael 
I'earce of Hingham, Mass., July 15, 
1653. 

20. Thomas, of Sudbury, Mass., 1655, 
carpenter; frm. May 14, 1656; w. Kath- 
arine d. 1667; m. (2), wid. Arabella 
Thong; d Sept. 13, 1701. Ancestor of 
the Sudbury Reeds. 

21. Thomas, of Boston, Mass., adm. 
inhabitant Mar. 31, 1656; by w. Mary 
had Elizabeth, b. 1656, d. 1658, and 
Thomas who d. 1661. He d. 1659; wid. 
Mary m. Thomas Matson. No descend- 
ants. 

22. John, of Dedham, Mass., 1659; 
a petitioner, "being yet non-freeman" 
May 3, 1665, autographic signature. 

23. Ur. Philip, of Salem, Lynn, Wey- 
mouth and Concord, Mass. ; w. Abigail 
dau. of Richard Rice ; frm. May 30, 
1660; d. in Concord, May 10, 1696, ae. 
abt. 72. Ancestor of the Concord fami- 
lies. 

24. EDWARD, of Marblehead, Mass., 
1660, fisherman; w. Margaret. By dep. 
he was b. 1611-14; d. 1695 in Marble- 
head. 

25. Capt. William, of Boston, Mass., 
merchant-mariner; m. abt. 1661, wid. 
Hannah Munnings, dau. of Dea. John 
Wiswall; d. at sea, coming from Ireland, 
1667; only recorded child, William, b. 
Mar. 26, 1665, Boston ; wid. Hannah m. 
(3), Thomas Overman of Boston. 

26. John, of York Co., Maine, 1661 , 
w. Mary; he was killed by Indians at 
Salmon Falls in 1690 : only son John, b. 
Apr. 11, 1674, Kittery, Me. Ancestor of 
the Lyme, Ct., Reeds. 

27. John, servant of Thomas Wal- 
ford of Portsmouth, N. H., who by will, 
dated Nov. 15, 1666, bequeaths him to 
his son-in-law, John Westbrook. 

28. John, of Newport, R. I.; frm. 
May 2, 1066 ; Deputy May 4, 1675. 



29. John', of Warwick, R. I., by w. 
Ann had son John, b. May 13, 1(1(17: 
rem. to Norwalk, Ct., before 1685. 

30. Joseph, came in the Arabella in 

1671. ae. 24; a Joseph of Beverly in King 
Philip's War 1675; a Joseph of Salem, 
husbandman, w. Tabitha, 1684. 

31. Christopher, of Boston, Mass., 

1672, tanner, b. abt. 1640; w. Katharine 
adm. to Old South Church 1673; rem. 
to Cambridge, thence to Dunstable, ret. 
to Boston; admin, on his est. 1696; wid. 
m. William Green of Groton and d. abt. 
1710. A dau., Elizabeth, m. Samuel 
Whiting of Dunstable. 

32. Thomas, of Marblehead, Mass., 
householder 1674. 

33. " Michel," was a soldier in King 
Philip's War 1676. (Bodge, p. 452.) 

34. Christopher, of Salem and Bev- 
erly, enl. 1676 in King Philip's War; m. 
Elizabeth, dau. of William Hoar. Liv- 
ing in Beverly in 1733. 

35. Thomas, of Chelmsford, Mass., 
tailor, b. abt. 1656, soldier in King Philip's 
War 1676; frm. Apr. 1, 1679; m. 1679, 
Hannah, dau. of John Blanchard of 
Chelmsford: d. 1730-36. Ancestor of 
the Chelmsford Reads. 

36. Richard, of Providence, R. I., 
rem. to Boston 1682. 

37. Richard, of Marblehead, Mass., 
fisherman, b. abt. 1632; m. (1), Esther 
James of Marblehead: m. (2), abt. 1691, 
Prudence Hicks of Boston. 

38. William, of New Eng., mariner, 
makes John Harlock of Ratcliff, Stepney, 
Eng., gent., and w. Eliza, his attys., Oct.. 
1691. 

39. Samuel, of Marblehead, Mass.. 
fisherman : w. Wilmot executed as a 
witch 1692 ; m. (2), wid. Jane Stacey ; d. 
1 7 1 6. 

If sufficient support is given, more en- ' 
tended accounts of some of the above 
settlers will appear in the next Triennial 
Report. 



T H E R E AD E RECORD. 



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Published by the 
Reade Historical and Genealogical Association. 




Officers elected October 28, igio. 
President. 
Rev. James Reed . . . Boston. 

Vice-Presidents. 
Hon. Warren A. Reed Brockton. 
Gen. Philip Reade . . 
Edward F. Reed . . 
John S. C. Blanchard 
Hon. Silas D. Reed 
Joshua E. Crane . . 

Treasurer. 
Henry R. Reed . . . S... Weymouth. 

Secretaries. 
Charles F. Read . . Brookline. 
Alanson H. Reed . . Wellesley. 



Boston. 

Everett. 

So. Weymouth. 

Taunton. 

Bridgewater. 



It is hoped that those receiving the 
Reade Record, but who are not members 
of the Reade Historical and Genealogical 
Association, will take membership, which 
they can do by sending $ 1 . the admission 
'fee, or $10 for Life Membership, without 
any further assessments. 

Persons becoming members will re- 
ceive, without extra expense, a member- 



ship certificate showing the Reade Coat 
of Arms in colors and duly signed by the 
officers, and with it (until the edition is 
exhausted) a copy of the First Triennial 
Report of the Association. 

Join at once, and by your personal in- 
fluence assist in making the Association 
larger in membership, and as zealous in 
genealogical research as it is proud of its 
family history. 

Remittances of the membership fee 
should be sent to CHARLES !•'. READ, 
Senior Secretary R. H. & C. A., Old 
State House, Boston, Mass. 



Annual Meetings. 

Seven annual meetings of the Reade 
Historical and Genealogical Association 
have been held, as follows: 

Taunton, Mass., July 14, 1904. 
Boston, \la>s.. October 12, 1905. 
South Weymouth, Mass., Sept. 27, 1906. 
West Bridgewater, Mass., Oct. 17, 1907. 
Boston, Mass., October 28, 1908. 
Boston. Mass.. 1 tctober 2S, 1909. 
Lexington, Mass.. Octohci _\\ 1910. 

It is expected to hold the annual meet- 
ing in 1 9 1 1 in South Weymouth, Mass., 
and at that time to dedicate a Memorial to 
William Reade of Weymouth, and Avis 
Reade, his wife. 



The Association has received from its 
President, Rev. James Reed of Boston, 
an attractive pamphlet containing a de- 
tailed account of the celebration of his 
fiftieth anniversary as pastor of the Bos- 
ton Society of the New Jerusalem Church. 
Mr. Reed is the only clergyman preach- 
ing in Boston to-day, who preached there 
fifty years ago. 

The pamphlet gives abundant testi- 
mony that Mr. Reed is held in affection- 
ate regard by a large circle of parishoners 
and friends. 



THE READE RECORD. 




Henry Beecher Reed, 

Treasurer Reade Historical and Genealogical 
Association. 



NEW MEMBERS. 
The following persons have become 
members of the Reade Historical and 
Genealogical Association since the pub- 
lication of the last Reade Record : 

Mrs. Emma R. Akin, New York. 

Rev. A. T. Cross, Fort Collins, Colo. 

Daniel V. Raymond, Tompkinsville, N. V. 

Charles B. Read, Bridgeport, Conn. 

Miss Ella H. Read, New Bedford, Mass. 

Frederick W. Read, Bridgeport, Conn. 

George R. Read, New York. 

John R. Read, Charleston, S. C. 

Samuel B. Read, Boston. 

W. Nash Read, Pensacola, Fla. 

Clarence D. Reed, Whitman, Mass. 

Rev. David A. Reed, Springfield, Mass. 

Edgar Reed, Worcester, Mass. 

Edward T. Reed, Albany, N. Y. 

Fred L. Reed, Cohasset, Mass. 

Frederic H. Reed, New York. 

Henry D. Reed, Whitman, Mass. 

Winfield S. Reed, Bangor, Me. 

George D. Reid, Boston. 

Mrs. Edward ¥.. Sawyer, Lowell. 

Mrs. Louise R. Stowell, Lowell. 



THE TWO WILLIAMS. 
It should be noted in the Revised 
List that the first William in point 
of time who settled in Weymouth, in 
1635, is designated as William Reade 
of Batcombe, Eng. (No. 2). His 
stay in Weymouth was comparatively 
short, and so far as is known, he left 
no descendants there. Yet all the town 
entries prior to 1650 undoubtedly refer 
to him. Removing to Boston, the greater 
part of his life in New England was 
spent there, and he became identified 
with that town. So it seemed best to 
designate him as above, in order to dis- 
tinguish him from that William Reade 
ok Weymouth (No. 16), as he is desig- 
nated in the Revised List, who came to 
Weymouth certainly as early as 165 1 
and probably earlier, and lived and died 
there. He was the progenitor of that 
extensive family, known as the Wey- 
mouth Reads. 



Query. 
Fifty acres of land were purchased in 
1691 from Benjamin Reade and this was 
the original size of Yorktown, Va. Who 
was Benjamin Reade ? 

Gen. Philip Reade, 

Hotel Wadsworth, Boston. 



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your generosity, but money 

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it. 

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Woburn March 2 ye 1792 

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FAMILY GENEALOGICAL ASSOCIA- 
TIONS. 

There is little excuse for societies oi 
this kind if they do not result in things 
practical as well as sentimental. The 
most important work of any genealogical 
body is the finding of correct lines of 
descent and the bringing to light of new 
information in regard to its members. 
The most important step is that of es- 
tablishing on a firm basis the status of 
the first immigrants of the name who 
settled in New England and became the 
founders of the various branches of the 
family. Should he, however, have failed 
to leave descendants, that fact also needs 
establishing, that he may be eliminated 
once for all, because such lack of infor- 
mation causes errors, and printed gen- 
ealogical untruths seem fitted with wings 
that carry them to every quarter of the 
world, to mislead the unknowing and 
pester the seeker after the truth. 

There were a number of immigrants 
of the Reade name'(however spelled), who 
came to New England in early days, 
most of whom were founders of families, 
and their descendants are now scattered 
across the continent from the Atlantic to 
the Pacific and from Canada to Mexico 
in thousands. 

But in the countless printed statements 
of ancestral lines, very many mistakes 
have been made in tracing back to 
the original founders of the different 
branches of the family, the cause of 
which it would take too long to explain 
here. 

Those of us with the original records 
near at hand have been able by diligent 
search to get more light on these matters 
and, in a way, know the right from the 
wrong. But workers at a distance with 
limited facilities and following the ear- 
lier printed family histories, have been 
involved in a web that defied all efforts 
to untangle, do what they would. It is 
the consensus of those interested in the 



matter, that a better condition of affairs 
should be established, and it is the 
proper work of the Reade Family Asso- 
ciation to accomplish it. A reliable and 
exhaustive studv should be made of 
eai li and every original immigrant, his 
children, and in some cases, his grand- 
children, and such information published 
with references verifying each and every 
statement, thus furnishing a firm basis 
on which future genealogists may erect 
a correct superstructure of every branch 
of the Keade Family. This work is now 
to be undertaken, but it will take time 
and money to carry it out to its full 
completion. The first step is the com- 
piling of a new Revised List of Early 
Reade Inhabitants, so that in a general 
way their names, locations, and number 
may be known, and thus a guide be had 
for subsequent investigation in this coun- 
try and in England. 

The first publication of the Associa- 
tion contained a partial list of this kind, 
but in the present issue of the RECORD 

a New Revised List will be found. 
From want of space, only such items 
concerning each name are given as will 
identify the individual, leaving all other 
information, old or new, if any, to be 
printed at a later time. But every item 
in this List, as stated, can be relied upon 
as correct, and capable of being verified 
by competent authority. Even the com- 
parison of the information contained in 
this list, with past publications, will afford 
items well worth knowing. 

In the arrangement of this Revised 
List, each immigrant is listed in the 
order of priority in which the records 
first mention his name. 

George S. Stewart, A.B., 

46 Floral Street, 
NEWTON HIGHLANDS, . . MASS. 

GENEALOGIST. 

New England Families only. 
20 year* experience. 



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ENGLISH RESEARCH. 

The article noted in Mr. Bartlett's let- 
ter was a most interesting genealogical 
account of William Read of Weymouth, 
and the Widow Avis Read, mentioned in 
the Town Records as resident there. The 
report was read at the last meeting of 
the Reade Family Association and was 
heard with great interest. It was the in- 
tention to publish it in full in this issue 
of the Record, but our space is so limited 
and one part of it seemed of such special 
value, that it is deemed best for the pres- 
ent to centre attention on that alone. 

Mr. Bardett says : " Concerning the 
part whence this William Read came, I 
know of no definite indications; but as 
most of the early settlers of Weymouth 
[635 are known to have come from Som- 
ersetshire and Dorsetshire, it is reason- 
able to suppose that this William who 
came about 1650 was most likely from 
the same region, and' came to New En- 
gland through connection or at least ac- 
quaintance with some of the Weymouth 
settlers fifteen years earlier — in 1635. 

" It may be noted that about 1650 a 
ship came to Salem, Mass., bringing sev- 
eral passengers from Wincanton, in Som- 
ersetshire (among them John I 'ining who 
settled in Weymouth and married Mar- 
garet Read there May 11, 1657), as ap- 
pears from the following document: 

" ' Thomas Cromwell and John Crom- 
well whoe have been long inhabitants here 
in the town of Salem, in ye Countie of 
Essex, heare in New England, doe testi- 
fifie that wee have known Hugh Joanes 
as one coming from England in ye same 
Shipp with us into this country above 
tliirty yeares agoe (and as we understood 
abord Mr. Strattons ship,) that he came 
from Wincanton and was Servant to Mr. 
Robert Gutch: and his Sister and Eliza- 
beth Due and Margaret White and James 
Abbott and John I 'ining as we under- 
stood came from the same place : and 
the same Hugh Joanes that came along 



with us into ye contry is now liveing, 
Taken upon the Corporall oathes of v 
srf Thomas and John Cromwell in Court 
.11 Salem the 27 of June 1682.' (Essex 
Co. Deeds, Vol. 6, fol. 28. See also N. 
E. Hist. Gen. Register, Vol. 61, p. 150.) 
Possibly the Reads and Vinings were as- 
sociated or acquainted in England, and 
perhaps William Read and his family 
came in the same ship which brought 
John Vining from Somersetshire and 
who later became Read's son-in-law as 
is supposed. 

" Mr. George S. Stewart's discovery of 
the marriage of a ' William Reede and 
Avis Chepman,' Oct. 8, 1635, at Long 
Sutton. Somersetshire, Eng. 1 regard 
as a very promising clue to the origin of 
the emigrant, as the name Avis is very 
rare and the time is exactly right for 
the presumed marriage of the emigrants 
William and Avis. I would recommend 
that this clue be followed up. Long 
Sutton is but fourteen miles from Win- 
canton whence came John Vining and 
the others, about 1650. ... In trying 
to locate the English ancestry of William 
and Avis Read, I would advise that a 
competent genealogist in London be 
engaged to go down into Somerset and 
thoroughly examine the registers of Long 
Sutton and vicinity. If the baptisms of 
the children of William and Avis (Chep- 
man) Read can be found corresponding 
with the presumed family in Weymouth, 
Mass., then wills and other records can 
be searched to such an extent as desired 
to make a pedigree." 

Since the above was written, at least 
one other English Record has been found 
by Mr. Stewart which confirms Mr. Bart- 
lett's intimation of some probable con- 
nection of the Read and Vining families 
in England. A subscription is now be- 
ing raised to make a search there as he 
suggests and as soon as the amount re- 
ceived justifies it the work will begin. Il 
is believed it will yield results of great 



THE READE RECORD. 



interest to the Read, Yining, and Dyer 
families and probably others. Any one 
wishing to contribute to this fund can 
remit to Charles F. Read, Senior Sec- 
retary of the Reade Historical and Gen- 
ealogical Association, Old State House. 
Boston, Mass. 

DEATHS OF MEMBERS. 

William H. Reed, a Vice-President of 
the Association, died at his home in 
South Weymouth, Mass., on February 
21, 1910, at the age of seventy-seven 
years. He was gready interested in the 
objects of the Association, having, like 
his brother, the late Quincy L. Reed, 
made a life-long study of genealogy and 
of estates in Weymouth. 

IK was also much interested in the 
proposed memorial to his ancestor, Wil- 
liam Reade of Weymouth, and was a 
member of the memorial committee at 
the time of his death. 



John R. Read died at his home in 

Charleston. S. C, on January 22, 191 1. 
at the age of eighty-nine years. Mr. 
Read was born in Lowell, Mass., but had 
resided in the South since 1850, being 
at the head of the firm of the J. R. Read 
Company of Charleston. 



Oeorge E. Reed died in South Wey- 
mouth on January 22, 1910. 



TRADITIONS. 



The Secretaries of the Association 
would be glad to receive from time to 
time for publication, original contribu- 
tions regarding Reade family traditions 
and folk lore, especially of the early gen- 
erations of those bearing the name in any 
(if its various spellings in this country. 
Traditions of this kind often come down 
in collateral branches: such will be espe- 
ciallv welcome. 



Such contributions cannot fail to make 
the Reade Record more interesting and 
acceptable to its readers, and also create 
an interest in the Reade Historical and 
Genealogical Association that will insure 
its continued prosperity. 



Since the last number of the Record 
was published, new and interesting mat- 
ters have developed that indicate that 
William Read of Batcombe, Eng., Wey- 
mouth, Mass., and Boston, and William 
Read of Weymouth (wife Avis), and 
Philip Read of Weymouth, John Read 
of Rehoboth, and Dr. Philip Read of 
Concord will all be found of one kin ; 
and that the Yining and Dyer families 
of Weymouth were not only connected 
here with the Reads but also in England. 

A search among the English Records 
by a competent genealogist should yield 
surprising results. 



The Senior Secretary would be glad 
to receive a few copies of the Reade 
Record issued two years ago. should 
there be any in the hands of those who 
do not care to retain them. The edition 
is exhausted and there are calls for copies 
at the present time. 



Extra copies of the Reade Record will 
be sent to members on application to the 
Senior Secretary, or to non-members on 
receipt of ten cents in stamps for each 
copy ordered. 



Our members and others interested in 
Reade Genealogy, residing at or near 
the various county-seats, are requested 
to forward to the Senior Secretary ab- 
stracts of early Reade Records found 
there. 

All having knowledge of data, relating 
to the Reades, compiled by persons who 
have made a study of the early genera- 
tions of the family, should also notify the 
Senior Secretarv. 



XLhc IRea&e IRecorfc. 

Number IV. BOSTON, MASS. 1912. 



READE HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL 
ASSOCIATION. 



The eighth annual meeting of the Reade Historical and Genealogical 
Association was held in the Fogg Library, South Weymouth, Mass., on 
Friday, October 27, 191 1. 

The President of the Association, Rev. James Reed of Boston, called 
the meeting to order and extended a cordial greeting to the large number 
of members and friends who were present. 

The annual reports of the Treasurer and Secretaries were presented 
and approved. This showed that the past year had been one of success 
for the Association, and gave promise of continued activities in the 
future in the history and genealogy of the Reade Family. 

ft was voted, on motion of Alanson H. Reed, Secretary, that the 
Association plan a memorial in the ancient burying-ground in Sudbury, 
Mass., to honor the patriotism of Asahel Reed of that town. He lost 
his life at the Battle of Lexington, April 19, 1775, and lies in an un- 
known grave in the old Cemetery in what is now termed North Sudbury. 
He was a descendant of Thomas Read of Sudbury. 

The officers of the past year were re-elected to serve for 1911-1912. 
The office of genealogist was also created by vote of the Association, 
and George S. Stewart of Concord was elected to fill the office. 

At the conclusion of the meeting a basket luncheon was served, 
together with delicacies provided by ladies of South Weymouth. 

The company proceeded after luncheon to the Reed Cemetery, Front 
Street, South Weymouth, where a memorial in honor of William and 
Avis Reade of Weymouth was dedicated with appropriate exercises. 

Charles F. Read, 

Old State House, Boston, 

t T ■,-, \ Secretaries. 

Alanson H. Reed, 

Wellesley Hills, 
Boston, Mass., December 27, 191 1. 



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English Unvcstioation. 

MR. BARTLETTS REPORT. 



London, England, 

Sept. 11, 191 1. 

Charles F. Read, Esq., Sec'y., 
Dear Sir : 

.... 1 have followed up the Long Sut- 
ton. Somersetshire clue mentioned on p. 
7, ■• Reade Record," for October, 19 10, 
keeping in mind a suggested connection 
of this William Reade and (Avis Chep- 
man) with other early Reade settlers of 
New England, viz. : 

William Reade from Batcomb, who 
came to Weymouth, Mass., in 1635 (No. 
2 on Reed List). 

Philip Reade of Weymouth, Mass. 
(No. 10), and 

Dr. Philip Read of Concord, Mass. 
No. 23). 

John Read of Weymouth and Reho- 
both (Reed List. No. 7), thinking they. 



all might derive from a Reade family of , 64Q of the nenr]y one nundred Parishes 



Gillingham, Co. Dorset, on the borders 
Somersetshire. 

An examination of the Registers of 
Long Sutton showed the following 
records : 

" William Reade married Elizabeth 
Luckis Nov. 20, 1629.'' 

'• William Reed m. Avis Chepman of 
Knole,* Oct. 26, 1635.'' 

" Margret, the daughter of William 
Reed was baptized the 20»h of Januarie, 
1635/6." 

" Katherine the daughter of Tho : 
Chepman bapt. Mar. 5, 1606/7." 

■■ A vice the daughter of Tho : Chep- 
mam bapt. 19th May 1610." 

"Elizabeth daughter of Tho: Chep. 
man bapt. June 21. 1615/16." 

•' Joane daughter of Thomas Chep- 
man bapt. — 1618." 

« Ann daughter of Tho: Chepman 
bapt. — 1622." 

"Ann daughter of Tho: Chepman 
buried Mar I, 1636/7." 



" Tho: Chepman bur'd May 25, 1643." 

"Margaret Chepman buried Apr. 1, 
1653." 

The registers of Long Sutton to 16S0 
have no other records of William, Avis 
or Margaret Reade, or of the family of 
Thomas Chepman. It seems apparent 
that William and Avis Reed moved from 
Long Sutton after the birth of their first 
child, but 1 have been unable to find 
where they went to, an examination of 
the transcripts of main registers after 
1636 failing to show the baptisms of 
any more children to William and Avis 
Reade .... 

During the four years, 1637 to 1640 
inclusive, it is likely that William and 
Avis Reed had one or two children born 
. . . . I therefore spent four days in the 
Diocesan Registry at Wells and ex- 
amined the transcripts from 1636 to 



included within the blue lines drawn on 
the enclosed map, covering an area of 
some 250 square miles, but failed to find 
baptisms of children to a William Reade 
during that period except the following: 

"Dorothy daughter of William and 
Susanna Reade bapt. Dec. ro, 1637" at 
Stoke Trister, which record has (proba- 
bly) no bearing on our problem. 

Concerning probate work, there are 
copies of all Reade wills for Somerset- 
shire up to 1 700 in your manuscript book 
of Read data, so 1 had no need to work 
on Reade wills. 

I expected to find a will of Thomas 
Chepman of Long Sutton (father ol Avis) 
who died 1643, or °f Margaret Chep. 
man (probably his widow) who died 
1653, hoping they might mention Reade 
grandchildren; but no wills of them exist. 

[Details of his search are too long to 
print in our columns; he ends by saying 



but with no result."] 

* Knole is a hamlet in the eastern part of the Parish of Long Sutton. 



THE K E A D E RECORD 



I also examined the original registers 
of Wincanton, but William Reade does 
not appear there. John Vining of Win- 
canton, who married in 1627 Lucy Reade, 
daughter of John Reade of Gillingham, 
and half sister of Susanna Hayne, who 
married in 1629 William Reade <>1 Bat- 
comb (who came to Weymouth, Mass., in 
1635) had a son John Vining, bapt. at 
Wincanton [Eng.] Nov. 26. 1629. But 
this John Vining, Jun., was not the John 
Vining who came to New England in 
1650, as John, Jun r ., was Executor oi 
the Will of his Father at Wincanton in 
1676. The John Vining who came to 
New England in 1650, and married 1 
Margaret Reade, and married (2) Mary 
Reade, both of Weymouth, Mass., was 
probably the son of John Vining, bapt. 
at Wincanton, April 17, 1636, son of 
Robert Vining. 

The Reade extracts from the Regis- 
ters of Gillingham, County Dorset, which 
arc in your Reade manuscript book were 
very suggestive, and I attempted to get 
some wills of that branch, but the results 
were disappointing .... 

[Mr. Bartlett then gives details of his 
search, and the records, etc., too long to 
print here.] 

As a final effort I tried the protesta- 
tion rolls of 1042, which had the names 
of all males over iS years old in each 
Parish in England .... returns existing 
for about one-third of the 500 Parishes 
in Somersetshire. William Reades ap- 
pear in the following Parishes (names 
given) but 1 have not followed these fur- 
ther, and am unable to say whether or 
not any one of them could have been the 
William Reade formerly of Long Sutton. 
On the enclosed map I have outlined in 
red the places mentioned in this report. 
1 am still of the opinion that William 
and Avis Reade of Long Sutton, Eng., 
were the emigrants to New England, and 
that he was related to other early Reads 
of Weymouth, Mass. 



But I have been unable with the 
means appropriated to get proper evi- 
dence for this belief, and feel it would 
take a longer and more expensive search 
to establish it with certainty, as the name 
is quite common in Somersetshire. 

I regret that the non-existence of nec- 
essary and expected records there, pre- 
cluded a more sin cessful result of my 

search 

Yours truly, 
J. Gardner Bar 11 1,1 1 . 



DR. PHILIP READ OF CONCORD. 

IRead List, No. 23.] 

He seems to have been one of the 
most noted physicians of his time in 
the vicinitj oi Boston; residing al dif- 
ferent places, but finally sealed in Con- 
cord, where he died. He was not "a 
son of ELIAS," as the "History of the 
Read Family," published 1S61, states. 
He seems to have been a typical English 
doctor of the old school, impetuous, chol- 
eric, and always in the public eye. At 
one time called into Court and put in 
prison for blasphemy, in which by the 
way lie made the excuse of many a man, 
that his mother-in-law, who in fact was 
only too good to him, was to be blamed 
for it! At another time he had trouble 
in connection with witchcraft affairs. 
He was later put in prison for assaulting 
a man on the King's highway, with his 
rapier, and wounding him. At other 
times unpaid debts brought him woes. 
Take it altogether he must have been an 
original character, and led an eventful 
life. 

If all the records concerning him were 
printed under the caption of " Doctor 
Philip Read and his Troubles,'' they 
would make an interesting story. He 
left many descendants, but so far a> the 
writer remembers, no one of them has 
joined our Reade Association. What 
has become of them ? We would be 
glad to hear from them. 



THE READE RECORD. 



ASAHEL REED OF SUDBURY. 
Battle of Lexington. — Forty Coffins. 

The men of the Read name, howevei 
spelled, who took part in the Revolution, 
both in civil and military affairs, were 
numerous. Among them, in the town of 
Sudbury, twenty miles west of Boston, 
its north boundary adjoining the famous 
town or township of Concord, lived Asa- 
hel Reed, son of Isaac, and great-great- 
grandson of Thomas Read, the immi- 
grant ancestor (Reed List, No. 20), who 
settled in Sudbury in 1655 or earlier. 
When the townsmen of Sudbury, in the 
years of 1775 and preceding, saw that 
an armed conflict was impending, they 
in common with all other towns organized 
companies of Minute-men — men ready 
to march to the seat of war at a minute's 
notice, at the tap of the bell in the old 
Church belfry. 

The roster of the Sudbury Company 
is still preserved among the archives of 
the town at the Town Hall, among the 
names being that of Asahel Reed. The 
eventful dav came when the dread alarm 
was sounded, the 19th of April, 1775, 
and in hot haste the little Company 
went forth to the conflict. The result 
all the world knows. But the Company 
returned to its home in Sudbury with its 
wounded and dead — two killed at the 
Battle of Lexington — Asahel Reed, a 
youth of some twenty years, and Deacon 
fosiah Haines, an octogenarian. — with 
the tire of righting still in his veins, for 
it is stated he it was wdio urged the 
Company to cross the bridge at Concord 
and attack the British without ceremony. 
Both these heroes were buried in the old 
cemetery in Sudbury on the 21st of April 
amid the excitement, fears, hopes, and 
grim desire for vengeance and victory, of 
the towns-people. A " Broadside " or 
sheet containing a detailed account of 
the conflict, and of all the Companies 
from the various towns who took part in 
it. was printed and sold on the streets of 



Boston, as now are extras of the news 
papers of to-day. This Broadside ha: at 
its head, as emblems of death and a call 
for retribution, a double row of coffins, 
forty in number, with the name of e ti h 
Minute-man killed in the tight, inscribed 
beneath a coffin. 

A copy of this old Broadside is pre- 
served at the Old State House in Boston. 
Every American is proud of his descent 
from some Revolutionary hero, and seeks 
to render honor to their name and services. 
But however it has come to pass, it is 
certain that Asahel Reed, who gave his 
life to the cause of Liberty, now lies in 
an unmarked and unhonored grave in the 
old cemetery in Sudbury. Few even of 
the towns-people are aware of the sad 
fact. But it is the desire of the Reade 
Historical and Genealogical Association 
to better this condition by erecting a 
fitting memorial to his name and ser- 
vices. 

It is hoped that sufficient funds will 
be contributed by those of the Read 
name (however spelled) and those of col- 
lateral families or others interested, to 
erect and dedicate this monument at the 
next (ninth) annual meeting, [91 2, of 
which due notice will be given. 

All those who feel like contributing — 
and any sum, large or small, will be 
thankfully received and duly acknowl- 
edged — can send the same to our Secre- 
tary, Charles F. Read, Old State House, 
Boston, AI.iss. All money received will be 
deposited in bank and kept as a special 
fund for this use. 



Remember that if you fail to preserve 
and place on record the information you 
may have in regard to your ancestors and 
family history, in the future when you 
are gone, your children and grandchildren 
to the latest feneration, may search in 
vain to find it. and bitterly complain of 
your selfish neglect of their interests. 



THE READE RECORD. 



ESDRAS READE OF BOSTON. 
[Reed List, No. 8.] 

In the Hist. Reed Fam., pub. 1861, 
an account is given of Esdras Reade (p. 
151), one of the original immigrants. His 
supposed English parentage as " son of 
Matthew and his wife Alice Ward " may 
be dismissed of no worth. The Boston, 
lla».. Town records state that " the 
24th day of the same 10th moneth [De- 
cember], 163S .... Esdras Reade a 
l.i'. lor is allowed to bee an Inhabitant 
and to have a great Lot at Muddy River 
for 4 heads " (p. 36, Book of Possessions). 

There is no record of the occupation 
nor conveyance of this grant, by Esdras, 
and as he became an inhabitant of Salem, 
Feb. 25, 1639, and had a grant from that 
town, it is probable that though he had a 
grant at Muddy River as stated above, 
which was four miles from the heart of 
Boston and now in the town of Brook- 
line, that finding the little Muddy River 
settlement too small to support him at 
his trade as " a Taylor," he did not have 
lii- grant surveyed and laid out for use, 
and go there to live. 

There is no record or mention of any 
specific lot laid out to him with estab- 
lished bounds, as in the case of other 
grants. Upon his failure to occupy the 
property and of his becoming an inhabit- 
ant of Salem with a grant there, it is quite 
likely his Boston grant became void for 
non-use, and whatever interest he had in 
it reverted to the town. Hence no con- 
veyance was needed from him, nor any 
found to others. The statement, there- 
fore, in the Reed Hist., 1861, p. 61, in 
the account concerning William Reade, 
of Woburn (Reed List, No. 4), that " His 
Brother Esdras who had a grant of Land 
from the town of Boston situated at 
Muddy River (now Brookline), sold the 
same to William," is without foundation, 
so far as the transfer is concerned ; nor 
is there any evidence that William " took 
up his residence on it where he lived till 



[648," except that when in that year he 
purchased land in Woburn and removed 
to that place, he is mentioned in the deed 
as ■• Wm Reade of Muddie River" (Sufi. 
Deeds Lib. i : 93), but he had been of 
Dorchester and Scituate formerly. 

There has been no relation shown be- 
tween this William, who is known to 
have come from New Castle-on-Tyne, 
Eng., and Esdras Reade, and a Robert 
Reade (Reed List, No. 3), who also came 
to Boston, 1635, and had a grant at Mud- 
die River in 1 637, — the place in England 
from which the two latter came, being 
unknown. But investigation there may 
be expected to clear the matter up. 

In 1655 Esdras had removed to Chelms- 
ford, but in 1661 had again removed to 
Boston. The Reed Hist. (p. 152) states 
that he had a grandson, Thomas, who 
" went back to Chelmsford and had a 
town grant in 1665." This statement is 
not correct, for his grandson Thomas was 
a seaman and resided in Boston and 
never in Chelmsford. The Thomas Read, 
of Chelmsford (Reed List, No. 35), was 
a tailor, but no known relationship exists 
and his parentage is yet to be estab- 
lished. He may prove to be a son of 
one of the earliest immigrants or to 
have come from England himself. 



THE N. E. HIST. GEN. SOCIETY. 

This organization has a large and valu- 
able library and manuscript collection, 
housed in an old, unsafe building at iS 
Somerset St., exposed to all the dangers 
of fire. In view of this the Society are 
now erecting a new building nearby, with 
massive brick walls, in fact a huge fire 
proof vault, but amply lighted, with every 
modern convenience. Cost, $1 1 5,000, of 
which $40,000 has been subscribed. The 
Society will gladly welcome any subscrip- 
tion, however small, to aid in paying the 
additional cost. It felt obliged to incur 
a debt to build rather than take further 
risk of loss by fire. 



THE R E A D E R E C O R D . 



READE, READ, REED. 

New England Inhabitants of the Name, 
1630-1700. 

This new revised " Reed List," as it 
will be referred to in this and our future 
issues, was published in No. Ill of the 
" Reade Record," our last issue. It con- 
sists of the names of all original settlers 
in New England as far as they could be 
found, from 1 030-1 700. They are ar- 
ranged according to priority of mention 
on the Records, and are numbered from 
1 to 39 for convenience of reference. 
This is one of the most valuable papers 
yet published concerning the Read Gen- 
ealogies, as it makes a firm foundation 
for the starting of each branch, and cor- 
rects many gross errors now in print. 



WILL OF JOHN READ OF WEYMOUTH 
AND REHOBOTH, MASS. 

[Reed List, No. 7.] 
The ancestor of a numerous posterity. 
Hut in past accounts of him no men- 
tion seems ever to have been made of 
his will which Mr. George S. Stewart 
lately found recorded at Plymouth. It 
clears up many uncertainties in regard to 
Weymouth family lines. He was there 
in 1637-39, as also Philip Read (No. to 
Reed List) and Zachary (No. 11 Reed 
List), supposed to be his brothers. 

John's wife was Sarah, daughter of 
Will. Lessie of Blyborough, Suffolk Co., 
Eng. A search of the records there 
would likely disclose the date of their 
marriage and the births of their children 
born before coming to New England, and 
perhaps the parents of John and Philip. 

It is hoped that their descendants will 
furnish the Association with funds with 
which to make an investigation. 

John and Sarah removed to Alt. Wol- 
laston (Braintree), and later to Rehoboth, 
Mass., where he died. John's will is 
dated the 6th of Jan., 1679. and proved 
Oct. 20, 1685. It names '-My well be- 



loved wile Sarah," sons Daniel. Israel, 
Moses, John, Thomas and Samuel, and 
daughters Mary and Mehitabell, and 
grandchild John Read. Wife Sarah to be 
sole executrix. Ensign Nicholas Pecke, 
Samuel Pecke and William Carpenter, 
overseers. Witnesses: Nicholas Pecke 
and William Carpenter. 

the mark of 
(Signed) JOHN R READ [Seal], 

THE MYTH OF ELIAS READ. 

The History of the Heed Family, pub- 
lished 1861, by Jacob W. Read, has been 
the foundation of nearly all the gealogi- 
cal Read lines printed since then. Rut 
some gross errors unfortunately marred 
the work. Among others, page 272, 
" Elias Read " is given as the ancestor 
of a long line of American descendants. 
As a matter of fact no immigrant of that 
name came to New England, and the 
lines grofiped under the name " Ei.ias " 
belong to three or four different and dis- 
tinct families. How this mistake oc- 
curred is explained in an article by Alan- 
son H. Reed, published in the " New 
England Historical and Genealogical 
Register" for [909, Vol. 63, p. 200. 



ROOSTER DRIVEN TO SUICIDE BY 
THE COLD. 

BrO( k ion, Mass., Jan. 10. 
The extreme cold spell of New Eng- 
land weather is thought to have added 
another to its long list of victims to-day, 
when "Alexander the Great," the prize 
Orpington rooster owned b) Clarence 
Reed of Melrose Avenue, this city, com- 
mitted suicide by hanging itself on a wire- 
fence. The owner of the bird saw it 
dancing about the yard in an effort to 
keep warm, but did not think it had 
suicidal intentions. The proud victor .'I 
many a battle died from strangulation, 
and Reed, as medical examiner, says it 

was SUli idi 



THE READE RECORD. 



Gbe "Rente TRecort). 



Published by the 
Reade Historical and Genealogical Association. 




Officers elected October 27, 1911. 
President. 
Rev. James Reed . . . Boston. 

Vice-Presidents. 
Hon. W \i.i:i \ \. km Brockton. 
Gen. Philip Reade . . 
Edw vrd I'. Reed . . . 
John S. C. I'.i anchard 
Hon. Silas D. Reed 

JOSHl \ E. < l; \M . . . 
Treasurer. 
Henry B. Reed ... So Weymouth. 

Secretaries. 
Charles F. Read . . Brookline. 
A LAN son II. Reed . . Wellesley Hills. 

Genealogist. 
George S. Stewart. . Concord. 



Bi 'Ston. 

Everett. 

So. Weymouth. 

Taunton. 

Bridgewater. 



Annual Meetings. 

Eight annual meetings of the Reade 
Historical and Genealogic.il Association 
have been held in Massachusetts, as fol- 
lows : — 

Taunton, July 14, 1004. 

Boston. October [2, 1905. 

South Weymouth. September 27, 1906. 

West Bridgewater, October 17, 1907. 



Boston, October 2S, 1 90S. 
Boston, < Ictobei 28, 1909. 
1 • Mu-ton, October 2S, 1910. 
South Weymouth, October 27, 191 1. 



YOU ARE INVITED TO JOIN. 

Remittances of membership fees should 
be sent to i'ii \ki 1 s F. Read, Secretary 
R. H. & G. A.. Old State House, Boston, 
Mass. See page 10. 



THE WILLIAM AND AVIS READE 
MEMORIAL 

Erected and dedicated at the Old Read 
1 emetery in South Weymouth by the 
Association at the last Annual Meeting, 

consists of one of the largest slabs of 

dark blue slate evei quai ried, being rive 
fee) high, two and one-half wide, and six- 
inches thick. It is placed upon a large 
underground base oi cement, forming a 
structure tlut will lust for all lime. In 
old graveyards, head stones of slate one 
or two hundred years old retain their 
shape, color and inscriptiions far better 

thon marble, granite, Or any other mate- 
rial. Slate looks almost as good as new 
while the others are dilapidated. For 
thai reason slate was chosen. The ex 

pense exceeded S 1 50. The inscription 
reads as follows: — 

In Honor of 

WILLIAM AND AVIS READE, 

WHl ' SAILING I ROM ENG1 IND 

VBOUT A. Ii. 1650, 

SETTLED IN THIS TOWN, 

IND WER] lilt. ANCESTORS 

OF A NUMEROUS POSTERITY. 



THIS MEMORIAL EREI Mo 

BY THE RE VDE HIST0RICA1 

AM. GENEALOGICAL ASS0C1 \ I [ON, 

\NN. . I. o MINI [on 

Professional genealogy is like any other 
business, the men who practice and live- 
by it are entitled to some reward. Ability 
to give information is his stock in trade, 
so do not expect Something lor Nothing. 



THE READE RECORD. 




CHARLES F. READ, 

Secietary Reade Historical and Genealogical 

Association. 



NEW MEMBERS. 
The following persons have become 
members of the Reade Historical and 
Genealogical Association since the issue 
of No. 1 1 1 of the Reade Record : 

Life Members. 
George 1!. Read. 
Edgar Reed. 
J. Paulding Reed. 
Mrs. ('.race R. Robinson. 

Annual Members. 
Mrs. Grace L. R. Cross. 
Mrs. Mary A. R. Jackson. 
Mrs. Ethel R. Morss. 
Miss Clara M. Prescott. 
Mrs. Mary R. Prouty. 
Edward M. Read. 
Alanson L. Reed. 
Charles A. Reed. 
Charles I). Reed. 
Charles U. Reed. 
E. Waldo Reed. 
E. M. Reed. 
Rev. George II. Reed. 



Dr. Joshua W. Reed. 
Latham G. Reed. 
Miss Lucy II. Reed. 
Nathan H. Reed. 
Quincy Reed. 
Robert C. Reed. 
William P.. Reed, Jr. 
Miss H. Priscilla Russell. 
Mrs. Mary R. Smith. 
Mrs. Ellen R. Webb. 
Mrs. Anna R. Wilkinson. 



GENEALOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS. 

It should be distinctly understood that 
the Reade Historical and Genealogical 
Association is not organized for any 
pecuniary gain; that it has no paid 
officers. Its Secretaries and other offi- 
cials do its work solely from interest in 
genealogical matters concerning the Reed 
or Reade name and family generally. 
None of them are professional genealo- 
gists, though having had considerable 
experience in such matters. None of 
them would " for love or money " un- 
dertake any extended genealogical work 
for others, but they will gladly give to 
all members of the Association what- 
ever information they happen to have or 
can secure at short notice. When the 
services of a regular genealogist seem 
needed, the inquiry will be given to 
George .V. Stewart, who will communi- 
cate with the inquirer, and make such ar- 
rangements for further investigations as 
may be satisfactory to both. Mr. Stewart, 
at the last annual meeting, was elected 
the official genealogist of the Associa- 
tion, and is both competent and reliable. 
He is well acquainted with all the New 
England Records, both civil and military, 
and able to give results in the shortest 
possible time. His charges are very 
moderate. 

Letters addressed to George S. Stew- 
art, Concord. Mass., or in care of Charles 
F. Read, Secretary. Old State House, 
Boston, Mass., will receive prompt atten- 
tion. 



THE READE RECORD. 



OUR ADVERTISERS. 

As will be seen by our readers, the 
present number of the " Reade Record " 
contains a few advertisements. Hereto- 
fore the expense of its publication used 
lands from our annual dues that were 
needed for other purposes. So it was 
decided this issue should have a limited 
number of advertisements, and an appeal 
was made to the prominent business men 
ot the Association with such good results 
that we have been enabled to increase the 
number of pages in this issue oi the 
"Record," and pay the cost from 0U1 
advertisements. It is a matter oi course- 
that these advertisers gave us their copy 
and their money for the -'good oJ the 
cause." in other words to advance the 
work of the Association, and with little 
expectation that they would derive .in; 
benefit from their advertisements. But 
we strongly urge our members to look 
them over, and if it should happen that 
any goods of the kind are needed, that 
your order be sent to the firm, men- 
tioning the " Reade Record," which will 
not only insure special attention, Inn also 
aid our paper, for every merchant is will- 
ing to advertise in that publication that 
brings in trade. 



LIFE MEMBERSHIP. 

We cannot urge too strongly the im- 
portance of our present and future mem- 
bers becoming Life Membei r. 

The expense is only ten dollars, and 
thereafter no further dues or assessments 
are required. It is a very comfortable- 
feeling in any organization to know that 
one's membership is secure for life, with- 
out any further trouble or care about it. 
And it is also a very material benefit to 
the Association, because all these Life 
Membership payments are set aside as a 
Special Fund t the interest of which alone 
can be used. It is hoped this will in- 
crease to an amount which will help pay 
the costs of investigations in England, 



or such other purpose as the Association 
may see fit. There is now in bank the 
nucleus of such a fund, consisting of all 
fees for Life Membership which have 
been paid in so far. Anv increase will 
be welcome. Give it your earnest con- 
sideration. 

ONLY A DOLLAR A YEAR. 
REMEMBER that lor this small amount 
you can become a member of the " Reade 

Historical and Genealogical Association," 
now in iis ninth year of activity. You 

will receive a Certifii ale of Membership, 
with the Coatoi \rms in colors; also 
■■Tlie Reade Record" free, which con- 
tains valuable matter for those interested 
in the Reed family or name, however 
spelled. The Association is anxious in 
increase its membership, for in numbers 
there is strength. Without the support 
of the Reeds, Reads and Reades, and 
their collateral families it cannot prosper. 
./ dollar a year is not much of a lax 
for any of them, we imagine, but its re- 
ceipt means much to the Association. 
\ on .ire i m i lei I i.. come into the fold ! 



THE ANNUAL ASSESSMENTS. 

W i have noted elsewhere the- impor- 
tance of Life Membership, but well 
know thai not everyone will find that 
suited to ih. n circumstances. We earn- 
estly request our members to maintain 
their lively interest in an Association that 
is doing such good genealogical work. 
Your support must be had, or it cannot 
continue to live. When vou receive your 
notice of the annual one dollar assess- 
ment, you render material aid by remit- 
ting it promptly, for our Treasurer must 
have funds to pay bills incurred, in carry- 
out the will of the Association. Our 
intent is to pay as we go and so keep 
out of debt. Il is only a dollar a vear, 
and there are many matters that will 
come to your notice through the Associ- 
ation and the " Reade Record " that will 
repay you for the small outlay. 



THE READE RECORD. 



MAJOR JOHN READ OF ROXBURY. 

He was a noted citizen of that town 
during Revolutionary times. But the local 
histories, as well as the History of the Read 
Family, published i 86 1 (p. 78), make an er- 
roneous statement concerning his ancestry. 
His father was Joseph Read of Sudbury, 
son of Thomas, and grandson of Thomas 
the original immigrant who settled in 
Sudbury, 1654-55. Joseph married 
Sarah Rice of the same town, descend- 
ant of Edmund Rice, one of its founders. 
Joseph and Sarah lived on a farm in the 
south part of the town adjoining Fram- 
ingham line. Subsequently they removed 
to Leicester, where, in 1729, they had a 
son John. Later they removed to Ox- 
ford where the father, Joseph, died in 
1731, and his widow had a posthumous 
child. She married Ebenezer Humphrey 
in 1732. Sarah's sister, Abigail Rice, 
was the wife of Daniel Bugbee of Rox- 
bury, and they took the child John to 
their home there and brought him up and 
he became the well-known Major John. 

NO INTEREST IN HIS GENEALOGY. 

Such a man was once compared to a 
mule. It had no pride in its ancestry, 
and no hope of posterity. 



THE LAST SLAVE IN MASSACHU- 
SETTS. 

"Burlington, Feb. 3, 1844. 
" Capt. James Reed to James H. 

Walker Dr. 

To Diging Grave & attending Fu- 
neral of Venus Roe . . . $3.00 
" Rec'd pay't 

" [amis H. Walker." 

The original of the above is now in 
the possession of Mr. J. Russell Reed, 
68 Devonshire St., Boston. He states 
that it relates to a negro slave, that when 
a little baby was sent, about 1 756-60, by 
a Boston Merchant as a present to the 
wife of Swithin Reed. He carried it in 
one side of a saddle bag to his home in 
Woburn, West Precinct, now the Town 



of Burlington. From the name " Roe " 
in the bill, there can be little doubt that 
the donor was the well known, wealthy 
Boston Merchant, John Rowe, whose let- 
ters and diary were published in 1903. 

The little negro baby grew up and 
lived to a good old age in the family of 
Swithin Reed, his son Capt. James, and 
grandson Capt. James, becoming a free- 
woman in the meantime when the Con- 
stitution of the Commonwealth of Mas- 
sachusetts was adopted soon after the 
Revolution. 

She died early in I S44, as above noted, 
and was buried in the old Burlington 
cemetery at the feet of her master and 
mistress. As indicated by the date of 
due bill for her funeral, there is good 
reason to think that she was the last sur- 
vivor who had been held as a slave in the 
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 



WILLIAM READE OF BATCOMBE, 
ENGLAND. 
[Reed List, No. 2.] 
This immigrant came from England 
in 1635 with wife Susan and two chil- 
dren, and settled in Weymouth, Mass. 
In [646 he was in Boston, where, in 



165 



vife died. In 1654 he mar- 



ried Ruth Crooke, and subsequently re- 
moved from Boston. By these two 
wives he left a large and influential 
posterity, scattered from one end of the 
country to the other. Their genealogies 
are in a very mixed uncertain condition, 
for in the " History of the Reed Fami- 
lies,'' published 1 861, their lines are 
divided among different family heads, 
and it takes a "Philadelphia Lawyer" 
to trace or disentangle them. It is very 
much to be desired that this branch of 
the Reade Family should get their lines 
revised and printed in proper shape. 

No other branch can show an earlier 
or more interesting record, for William 
Reade was a member of the Great and 
General Court of the Bay State Colony 
while in Weymouth. In Boston he lived 



12 



THE READE RECORD. 



on a lot he bought of Parson John Wil- 
son, within a stone's throw of the Old 
State House. 

An old bill yet exists among the Suf- 
folk County Archives, making a charge 
among other items for "paching" the 
minister's breeches, said William by the 
way being " a taylor." 

He has been much confused with Wil- 
liam Rt-dch- of Weymouth, (Reed List, 
No. 1 6), but investigation by the Asso- 
ciation, mention of which has been made 
in the " Record," has at last straightened 
it all out. 



"HERALDRY IN ENGLAND." 

J. Dallaway. — Pub. 1793, Oxford, Eng. 

" Before I conclude the classification 
of such bearings as are derivable from 
the Croisades and their consequences, I 
must mention the gryphon and unicorn, 
which we owe to the exuberance of 
gothick fancy; the former of which has 
the upper parts of an eagle, and the 
lower of a lion, witli the addition of long 
sharp ears. From climes so fertile in 
monsters as those through which these 
adventurers passed, we cannot wonder 
that the fiction was readily received by 
superstitious admirers, whose credulity 
nothing could exhaust. The Gryphon is 
very ancient, and its attitudes are com- 
monly passant, or segreant, answering to 
rampant in a lion, and the head erased. 
Peacham, asserts that of winged animals 
it has the first pretentions to antiquity, 
and the old romance of ' Syr Degove ' 
supplies a description worthy the hand 
of a Master." 

11 Then there was a Dragon great and grynime, 

" Fill of fyre and also of venymme, 

'• And as a Lioun then was his fete. 

■• His tayle was long and fid unmete. 

" Betwen his hede and his tayle 

" Was XXII fote withouten fayle, 

" Mis body was like a wine tonne. 

" He shone full ageynst the sunne, 

" His eyes were bright as any glase, 

" His scales were hard as any brasse." 



RETROSPECT. * 

From out the gate of morning's dawn. 

I .'in-- sailing o'er the ocean wide 

A tiny winged ship of man. 

That hoary Neptune scorned to see. 

He set his murky skies of black 

Across the arching heavens high. 

And blotted out the glowing sun. 

His stormy winds, in rage he called 

From out their gloomy Northern dens, 

And bade them rouse old Ocean's ire. 

And lift the dome of space above, 

From off its base, eternal set. 

He rolled his raging waters wild, 

Across that tiny vessel's path. 

And laughed in joyous, maddest glee 

To see it shrink, in trembling fear. 

Against its battered sides, for woe. 

lie sent Ins rushing, surging floods. 

And high ami low. he Inn led the little craft 

And sought to drag it down to endless depths. 

Though crushed its bulwarks, and its house, 

Though every sail, with tattered rags, 

Before the reckless, roaring gale. 

Was straining taut, and shattered masts. 

And spars, gave cause t"i sombre thought, 

Vet staunch its oaken nils and sides. 

And strong its steady ploughing keel, 

Though death his sullen watch did ceaseless keep 

To snatch his wonted prey, without escape. 

But stouter still, the souls of men 

That stood within that tiny ship. 

The Master, steadfast gazed -" loss 

The restless, heaving, swirling sea, 

And softly prayed beneath his breath. 

The crew that manned its flooded decks, 

In fierce disdain of death himself, 

Cursed God, and life, and dared the worst. 

But in its hold, was seed of Newer Life — 

\\ here truth's own martyrs knelt in silent thought, 

Then God, with mercy, knew His own, 
And from His seat, in realms above, 
He smote the dire black clouds, with fire 
And burned them oil tin sun and se 1. 
And sent the howling, snarling winds 
In stillness to their dismal caves. 
He lifted then the veil of mists, 
That shrouded white, the wide expanse, 
And stood revealed, a Newer World, 
Where Freedom's altar yet should stand. 

And so our fathers and our mothers came, 
And in our inmost hearts, they stand enshrined. 

ALANSON II. Kill.. 

* Written for the Annual Meeting of the Reade 
Historical and Genealogical Association, at South 
Weymouth, Oct. 27, 1911. 



Zhc IReafce IRccorb. 



Number V. BOSTON. MASS. 1912. 



READE HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL 
ASSOCIATION. 



The ninth annual meeting of the Reade Historical and Genealogical 
Association was held in the vestry of the Congregational Church in 
Burlington, Mass., by courtesy of that Society, on Wednesday, October 
1 6, 1912. Rev. James Reed, President of the Association, called the 
meeting to order at 1 1 o'clock, A.M., and gave a greeting to the members 
and others who were present. 

The Senior Secretary spoke informally of the activities of the Asso- 
ciation during the past year, after which, in the absence of the Treasurer, 
he read the annual report of that officer. 

He also read an interesting paper by Mr. George S. Stewart of 
Concord, the official genealogist, concerning William Reade of Wobtjrn, 
which appears on another page of this issue. 

Mr. Charles H. Reed of Westboro' gave an interesting account of Reed 
College, Portland, Oregon, which had recently opened its doors for 
educational work. 

It was voted that the Secretary and Genealogist have full power 
to appoint Corresponding Secretaries in each State in the Union, 
whose duties shall be to further the interests of the Association in 
those sections and make reports of their work to the Senior Secretary 
in Boston. 

The officers of the past year were re-elected to serve for 191 2-1 91 3. 

At the close of the meeting a basket lunch was enjoyed, the Associa- 
tion serving coffee. 

Charles F. Read, \ 

> Secretaries. 
Alanson H. Reed, ) 

Boston, October 16, 191 2. 



THE READE RECORD 



WILLIAM READE OF WOBURN 
iReade List, No. 4.) 

Of the six Reades who settled in Middle- 
sex Count}- in early days, the first to come 
was William Reade who bought an estate 
in Woburn in 1648. 

Esdras Reade appeared at Chelmsford 
in 1655 but removed to Boston in 1658, 
Thomas Reade from Colchester England 
is first mentioned at Sudbury in 1655, 
Dr. Philip Reade at Concord in 1670, 
Christopher Reade at Cambridge in 1674, 
and Thomas at Chelmsford in 1679. 

The descendants of William, who seem 
to have unanimously chosen "Reed" as 
the proper form for their surname, consti- 
tute one of the most numerous and dis- 
tinguished branches of the family in New 
England. 

At the time of his settlement at W'oliurn, 
William Reade had been a resident of the 
Colony for thirteen years and like several 
other immigrants of the name, he appar- 
ently had some difficulty in selecting a 
permanent place of abode. 

With his wife and three children, he 
embarked at London July 1635 in the 
ship "Defence," Edward Bostock master, 
bound for New England. 

If we accept the figures of the passenger 
list, the immigrant was already a man in 
the prime of life, the senior of his wife by 
eighteen years and forty-two when his 
eldest child was born. According to the 
record in Hotten's Lists, the family at 
this time included "William Reade aged 
18, .Mabel aged 30, George aged (i, Ralph 
aged 5, and Justice aged 18 months." Of 
the last named child no other mention 
has been found. 

William located first at Dorchester, was 
there admitted to church membership 
and received several small grants of land. 
It was undoubtably his daughter Abigail 
who was baptized in the Dorchester Church 
in 1638; she was probably several years 
old at the time which may be inferred from 
the fact that she married Francis Wyman 
of Woburn Oct. 2, 1650, only twelve years 
after her baptism. Mar. 14, 1638-9, Wil- 
liam Reade was made a freeman of Massa- 
chusetts, the third of the name to appear 



on the list, and the following August he 
sold his homestead in Dorchester and is 
next heard from at Scituate. Thence in 
11)42 "he sent his wife to Dorchester with 
her infant son Israel to have the boy 
baptized in the church of which he him- 
self was a member." 

At Scituate, his name appears among 
those "able to bear arms" in 1643 and the 
following year he was chosen constable. 
His next move was to Muddy River (now 
Brookline) and in Ki47 his wife was ad- 
mitted to membership in the Roxbury 
Church, where many Brookline residents 
then attended, and on Dec. 26 of the same 
year his daughter Rebecca (afterward the 
wife of Joseph Winn of Woburn) was there 
baptized. 

July 7, 1648 William Reade of Muddy 
River bought of Nicholas Davis of Charles- 
town a farm in Woburn containing "50 
acres of upland. I acres of meadow before 
the door, 4 acres of meadow in Rockbrook 
and 2 acres in Brook meadow with all 
barns, outhouses, fences, and all to the 
same belonging." 

Here for a few years William made his 
home; his daughter Abigail and his son> 
George and Ralph soon married and estab 
lished themselves nearby. 

What induced the father's removal can 
only be conjectured but the fact is known 
that William again undertook the tedious 
and costly voyage across the Atlantic 
and died in 1656 at Newcastle-on-Tyne, 
Northumberland. This was doubtless his 
native place and an examination of its 
early parish registers would lie likely to 
add much to our present knowledge of 
the origin of this family. 

In his will dated April !t, 1656 and pro- 
bated October 31 following, William Reade 
provided for his "wife MayUI." his "three 
children that are married in New england, 
that is, George, Ralph, and Abigail" and 
for his "four youngest children, in their 
minority" whom he did not mention by 
name. One of these minor children whose 
name remains unknown evidently died 
in childhood, a contingency for which the 
will provided; the other three were Israel, 
Sarah who married Samuel Walker of 
Woburn Sept. 10. 1662, and Rebecca. 



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The widow Mabel Reade married second 
Nov. 21, 16( iO Henry Somers Sr. of Woburn ; 
when he died in 1675, he left by will a con- 
siderable property to be divided among 
his Reade step-children, a fact which 
caused a protest from his own son, Henry 
Somers Jr. The controversy was finally 
settled Dec. 4, 1675 when all concerned 
signed a mutual agreement for the division 
of the estate and this document, still on 
file in the Middlesex Probate Office, shows 
conclusively that but six of the children of 
William Reade then survived, viz., George, 
Ralph, and Israel, his sons; and Abigail, 
Sarah, and Rebecca, his daughters; the 
three last being represented in the above 
transaction by their husbands, Francis 
Wyman, Samuel Walker, and Joseph 
Winn respectively. 

The widow Mabel in her testimony in 
this case calls Francis Kendall of Woburn 
"her brother". She died at Woburn June 
15, 1600. 

The Bethia Reade whose marriage to 
John Johnson Apr. 28, 1657 is recorded at 
Woburn, and who has often been described 
as "the daughter of William" must neces- 
sarily belong in another family and all the 
evidence at hand points to Esdras Reade 
as her father. 

Feb. 1, 1656-7 when the members of the 
Chelmsford Church gave to their pastor 
the names of their children, those of 
Esdras Reade were "Bethiah abt. 19 years 
old" and "Obadiah abt. 17 years old". 
This was only a few months prior to John 
Johnson's marriage as above stated, and 
in December of the same year, when he 
was involved in a lawsuit, Esdras Reade 
appeared as a witness in his favor. The 
fact that John and Bethia Johnson named 
a son "Obadiah," that Esdras Reade was 
temporarily "of Woburn" in 1670, and 
that when he died in 1680 his inventory 
included "a note of John Johnson for L'5" 
points to the same conclusion. G. S. S. 



HON. JOHN READ OF BOSTON 

Nov. 11, 1902, Mr. George B. keel, 
(since deceased), read a paper before the 
Bostonian Society entitled "The Life and 
Activities of Hon. John Read of Bos- 



ton" and this was afterward published 
in the Society's Proceedings for 1903. 
From this interesting account of a very 
remarkable personality many of the fol- 
lowing facts have been taken. 

John Read was born at Fairfield, Conn. 
Jan. 29, 1679-80. son of William and 
Deborah (Baldwin) Read, and grandson 
of that William Read who settled in 
Stratford before L650 (Reade List No. 
14.) 

He entered Harvard College in L692 
and was graduated in 1697, the seventh 
in a class of fourteen. He began life as 
a minister, preaching at Waterburv, 
Conn, in L698 and later for several 
years at East Hartford and Stratford. 

Doubtless the lawsuits in which he 
became involved over land titles first 
turned his thoughts toward the legal 
profession in which he was destined to 
attain so great prominence and reputa- 
tion. He was admitted to the bar at 
New Haven Oct. li, 1708 and was ap- 
pointed Queen's Attorney for the Prov- 
ince May 22, 1712, an office he held for 
several years. He received a large grant 
of land in and near what is now New 
Fairfield in 1710 but chose for his resi- 
dence that part of what later became 
Redding, Conn, which was then, and is 
now, called Lonetown where he erected 
his Manor house. He was one of the 
purchasers of the "Equivalent Lands" 
given by Massachusetts to Connecticut in 
in settlement of a boundary question 
and sold at auction by the latter colony 
in 1716. Ten thousand acres included 
in his share were located in w^hat is now 
Ware in Hampshire County. 

In May 1719, he was appointed a 
commissioner on the boundary line be- 
tween Connecticut and New York and 
the following year he served on the cur- 
rency commission. 

He came to Boston in 1 722 and at first 
resided on Hanover St. where now stands 
the American House, but in 173S he pur- 
chased and occupied a mansion on Queen 
St. (now Court), the site of the present 
Minot Building. He was elected At- 
torney General of the Province by the 
legislature in 1723, and was again chosen 



T HE READ E RECORD 



in 1724 but did not serve the latter year 
as the Governor claimed the right of 
appointment. In 1725, 1726, and 1727, 
he was again selected for the same high 
office. He participated in many cele- 
brated cases, acting as attorney for Con- 
necticut, Massachusetts and the Town 
of Boston. He also found time to write 
a Latin Grammar which was published 
in 1730. The following year, he pur- 
chased the entire township called Boston 
Plantation No. 1 (now Charlemont,. Mass. I 
some 23,000 acres and sold all of it but 
17(10 acres, which he deeded to his son 
William in 1738 together with his house 
and lot on Hanover St. and his share in 
a township at Piscataqua River. He 
was elected to the House of Representa- 
tives in 1738, the first lawyer who ever 
served in that body, and in 1741 and 
1 742 he was a member of the Governor's 
Council. He was a communicant at 
King's Chapel and one of its Wardens 
in 1735 and L736. He died in Boston 
Feb. 7, 1748-9 and was buried Feb. Nth. 
at King's Chapel. 

His wife was Ruth Talcott, born in 
Hartford, Sept. 12. 1677, daughter of 
Colonel John and Mary (Cook) Talcott, 
and half sister of Governor Joseph Tal- 
cott of Connecticut; she died in Boston 
and was buried at King's Chapel July 20, 
1759, aged 81. Their seven children 
were all born in Connecticut, viz.: 

1. Col. John, bapt. May 1 1, 1699, 
died at Redding, Conn, in 1786; mar- 
ried (1) Sept. 2, 1723, Mary Hawley of 
Stratford, b. June 6. 1697, d. Feb.' 14, 
17ls at Redding; he married (2) Dec. 
19, 1750, Sarah Bradley of Greenfield 
who died May 19, 1771. Sixteen chil- 
dren. 

2. Ruth, b. 170(1 in Hartford, d. 
Aug. 8, L766 Redding; m. Sept. 14, 1737, 
Rev. Nathaniel Hunn. 

3. Rachel, b. Feb. 14, 1703-4, d. 
young. 

4. Abigail, birth not found, m. Jos- 
eph Miller of Milton in 1720; her estate 
was settled in 1769, her children then 
living being, sons, Joseph, Hezekiah, 
William, and John, daughters Abigail, 
wife of Abner Hunt, Ruth, wife of 



Nathaniel Vose and Deborah, who mar- 
ried William Shepard. 

5. William b. 1710, d. unmarried. 
Sept. 17S0 in Boston; he was Judge of 
the Admiralty Court in 1700 and of the 
Superior Court in 1 770. 

(i. Mary, birth and death not found, 
m. Capt. Charles Morris who was born 
in Boston June 8, 1711; they Lived some 
fifteen years at Hopkinton, Mass. and 
removed to Halifax, N. S., where he be- 
came Chief Justice; seven children are 
recorded in Hopkinton, viz. William, 
Hezekiah, Mary Alexander, Francis, 
Samuel, and James. 

7. Deborah, b. 1717 s, d. April, 1793, 
in 70th year; m. ( 1 I July 24, 1739, Henry 
Welsted of Boston ; m. (2 1 Jan. :i I , 17 19 
50. Henry Paget of Providence and 
Smithfield, R. I., who d. in 1772. 

G. S.S. 



GENERAL JAMES REED OF NEW 
HAMPSHIRE 

This distinguished officer of the Revo- 
lution was born in Woburn, Mass. Jan. 
S, 1 72M-4 . son of Lieut. Thomas :i (George' 
William 1 ;, and Sarah (Sawyer) Reed. 

His father died Aug. 18, 1736, and his 
mother the following June 21st, leaving 
eight children, four sons and four daugh- 
ters. Dec. 11, 1738 when James was 
"in his fifteenth year" his uncle, Capt. 
Josiah Converse of Brookfield. was ap- 
pointed his guardian, a circumstance 
doubtless which brought him into Wor- 
cester County. He married Abigail 
Hinds, a Brookfield girl, and settled in 
Lunenburg. Mass. about 1740 where 
he was an innholder for many years, 
though by trade a tailor. 

His military career began in 1755 
when he was commissioned Captain in 
Col. Josiah Brown's regiment for the 
expedition to Crown Point, and from this 
time till 1762 he was in active service 
almost continuously as the ancient mus- 
ter rolls in the State Archives prove. He 
was present at the disastrous attack on 
Ticonderoga in 175$ when the popular 
young Lord Howe was slain. About 
1705 Captain Reed removed hi- Eamih 



Gift 
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T HE R E A I ) E R E C O R I) 



to Monadnock No. 4 (Fitzwilliam, N.H.) 
where he became the owner of three 
thousand acres of land and served as 
Proprietors' Clerk from 17(19 to 1776. 

In 1770, he was commissioned Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel by the Governor of New 
Hampshire. When the news of the bat- 
tle of Lexington were received, he at 
once started for Cambridge at the head 
of a company of volunteers. June 1 , 
1777) he was made a Colonel by the New 
Hampshire Provincial Assembly and 
eleven days later he reported for duty 
at Cambridge with his regiment. He 
distinguished himself at Bunker Hill 
where his post was at the rail fence on the 
left of the redoubt. He served with 
credit throughout the siege and upon the 
evacuation of Boston by the British in 
March 1776, he accompanied the patriot 
army to New York where he was assigned 
to a brigade commanded by General 
Sullivan and ordered to the relief of 
Arnold who was retreating from Canada 
by way of Champlain. 

On the 9th of August 1776, he was 
commissioned Brigadier General by Con- 
tinental Congress on the recommenda- 
tion of General Washington. Unfortu- 
nately, a severe attack of fever, brought 
on by the exposure and hardships of the 
campaign, resulted in the total loss of 
his sight and enforced his retirement 
from the service. He resided at Keene, 
N. H. for several years and there his 
wife died Aug. 27, 1791 in her 68th year. 
He married second Mary Farrar of 
Fitzwilliam, a native of Framingham, 
Mass. 

In 179S he removed to Fitchburg, 
Mass., where he died Feb. 13, 1807 in 
his 84th year. His grave in the Laurel 
Hill Cemetery is marked by an elaborate 
>lale-stone tablet. General Reed had 
nine children of whom the births of eight 
are recorded at Lunenburg and the other 
at Brookfield; their names were Abigail, 
James, Priscilla, Frederick, Sylvanus, 
Barzillai, Hinds, Joseph, and Salome. 
Further details of his career can be found 
in Vol. 4 of the Proceedings of the Fitch- 
burg Historical Society. 

G. S. S. 



WILL OF JOHN READ OF 
REHOBOTH 



(Reade List No. 7. 



This interesting document is found re- 
corded in Vol. v, (p. 360). of the Ply- 
mouth Colony Records, a book marked 
"Deeds," and we believe it has never be- 
fore been published. 
1685. 

"Be it known unto all men by these 
presents that I, John Read of the town- 
ship of Rehoboth In the Government of 
new plimouth in new England being aged 
yett through the Rich grace of god of good 
understanding: not knowing how soone the 
day of my desolution may be Doe this 
sixt day of January 1679 make this my 
last will & testament. 

Imprimis — I give to my well beloved 
wife Sarah Read my house orchard & 
home lott: &: all my Lands meadows & 
Commons which I have now in present 
posession : Dureing the time of her widow- 
hood: 

Item — I give & bequeath to my sons 
D.aniell & Israeli, my home lott & or- 
chard: & Israell my house I now dwell 
in: to be posessed of house & lands at my 
wifes marriage or her decease: 

Item — I give & bequeath unto my sons 
Moses, Daneell & Israell all the rest 
of my Lands & Meadows that are devided 
both in Rehoboth & my meadows at the 
broad Cove: & my son Israell fifty 
pounds estate: my sons to be possesed of 
the sd. Lands at there mothers marriage 
or decease. 

Item — I give my Lands & meadows de- 
vided or undevided on the north purchases 
Lands unto my sons Moses, D.aniell, 
& Israell to be posessed of them at their 
mothers marriage or decease: provided 
they pay or cause to be payed unto my 
two daughters Mary & Mehitabell tenn 
pounds Apiece as mony within one yeare 
after they Come to the posession of the 
sd Lands which If they neglect or refuse 
to pay it within the sd. terme: then it is 
my will that my two sd daughters should 
have all my rights of Lands & meadows 
devided or undevided in the North pur- 
chases Lands as their portion. 



THE READE RECORD 



Item— I doe by this presente Certifie 
that I have allready given my son John now- 
deceased & my sons Thomas & Samuell 
their full portion allready. 

Item— it is my will that my Grandchild 
John Reade shall Dwell with my wife 
till he Comes to the age of one & twenty 
years: If they both Live soeLong. 

Item: I make & ordaine my well beloved 
wife my sole Executrix: & desire my well 
beloved friends Ensign Nicholas pecke 
Samuell peck & William Carpenter to be 
my overseers of this my last will. 
Signed & sealed in the 
presence of us the mark of 

Nicholas Peck John K Read. 

William Carpenter. 

October the 20th 1685: Lieutt. Nicholas 
peck t\: william Carpenter the within writ- 
ten wittnesses personally Apearing tooke 
their solemn oathes that they said peck & 
Carpenter: did see John- Read Late de- 
ceased signe seale & deliver & declare this 
Instrument within written to be his Last 
Last will cV testament when he was of a 
dysposeing memorie & it is Aproved of 1>\ 
the Court : Before Daniel Smith, Assistant 
Entred & Recorded per Nathll Clarke, 
Secretary." 

On ]). 36] of the same volume appears 
"An Inventory of the personal! Estate of 
John Read of Rehoboth Deceased taken 
by the Subscribers hereof the first day of 
September 1685," too lengthy a document 
to be here given. "Sarah Read, Relict of 
John Read Late Deceased, made oath to 
the truth of this Inventory this 20th of 
October 1685: before 

Daniel Smith, Assistant. " 

FAMILY OF JOHN READ OF REHOBOTH 
i Reade List No. 7) 

John Read born in England, died at 
Rehoboth in 1685; married Sarah Les- 
see daughter of "Will Lessie of Blybor- 
ough, Suffolk"; she died at Rehoboth 
Apr. 23, 1702. Of their twelve children, 
the births of the two oldest were recorded 
at Braintree, the eight youngest at 
Rehoboth, viz. 
1. John 2 b. Aug. 29, 1040, d. Mar. 26, 
1676 killed by Indians; his widow 
Rachel m. (2) June 27, 1678 Thomas 
Wilmarth Jr.; d. Nov. 12, 1710. 



2. Thomas 2 b. Nov. 20, 1641, d. Feb. 
6, 1695-6 "aged 54"; m. Mar. 29, 
1665 Elizabeth Clarke who <l. Feb. 
23, 1674; m. (2) June 10, 107.") Anna 
Perrin who d. Mar. 8, 1710. 

3. Samuel-' birth not found; d. at 
Mendon 1718; m. May 10, 1068 Hope- 
still Holbrook who d. at Mendon 
Jan. 12, 1705-6; his second wife Han- 
nah d. at Mendon Jan. 24, 1710-7. 

4. Sarah 2 birth not found; d. Ian 
1001. 

"). Zachariah 2 ) 

6. Ezekiel 2 j twins, b. 1649, d. 1649 

7. Moses 8 b. Oct. 1650, d. Dec. 14, 
1 . 10; m. Dec. 6, 1077 Rebecca Fitch 
who d. Jan. 28, L 723-4. 

8. Mary 2 b. Ian. 1652, d. unmarried 
Feb. 1687-8 "aged 35." 

9. Elizabeth 2 b. fan. 1654, d. Sept. 
1654. 

10. Daniel- b. Mar. 1655, d. Oct. 17. 
1710; m. Aug. 20, 1077 Hannah I'm i. 

11. Israel 2 b. Mar. 1657, d. Nov. 17, 
1732; m. Nov. 6, 1684 Rebecca Rug- 
gles of Roxbury who d. Mar. 11 
1735-6. 

12. Mehitable- b. Aug. 1000, d. Ma\ 
28, 1710 "in 50th year"; m. Oct. 10, 
1688 Samuel Robinson who d. Sept. 
17. 1721. G. S. S. 

THE READES OF SMITHFIELD, R. I. 

The origin of this branch of the family 
is told in a letter written more than fifty 
years ago and now among the J. W. 
Reed Papers belonging to our junior 
Secretary, Mr. Alanson H. Reed." The 
letter is dated Sept. 3, 1858 at Woon- 
socket, R. I., and is addressed to O. A. 
Read Esq. of Providence and reads as 
follows: 

"I ree'd a letter of inquiry from you 
a few days since, should have answered 
it sooner but my Father was not well at 
that time. My Great Grandfather 
Read's name was Jonathan; he had two 
brothers who came over with him and 
settled at Salem, Mass., my father thinks 
one of them was Jacob, don't recollect 
the other's name. Jonathan was mar- 
ried twice, first to a Hanson and then to 
a Kempton. The Hanson woman had 
12 children, he recollects the names of 



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Benjamin, Hanson, Daniel and John 
(my Grandfather) all of whom had fam- 
ilies. The Kempton woman had 5 chil- 
dren, he recollects the names of Oliver 
and Aaron; Oliver had a family, Aaron 
never was married. My Grandfather, 
'John Read married a Farnum; she had 
3 boys and 6 girls; boys' names, David, 
George (my father) and John. Father 
says there is an old record which my 
Grandfather left which he will look up 
sometime when he feels smart. I will 
call and see you when I come in to vour 
city. Resp'y yours in haste, E.T. Read." 
Careful investigation shows that the 
Jonathan Read above mentioned was 
born in Salem Jan. 12, 1701-2, son of 
Jacob and grandson of Thomas who ap- 
pears at Salem in 1636 (Reade List No. 
6 i. Jonathan had three older brothers, 
Aaron, John and Jacob, all of whom 
seem to have died without issue as none 
of them are mentioned in their father's 
will. Jonathan settled in Smithfield in 
1746. The record of his first marriage 
has not been found but it seems probable 
that his first wife was the Anne Hanson 
born at Dover, N. H., July 23, 1703, 
daughter of Benjamin and Elizabeth 
(Trask) Hanson, members of the Society 
of Friends. Her mother was a Salem 
girl and her cousin John Trask married 
Elizabeth Read, Jonathan's sister. The 
marriage of Jonathan Read and Sarah 
Kempton Jan. 1, 1743-4 is recorded at 
Salem. G. S. S. 

FAMILY OF ESDRAS READE 
Reade List No. 8) 

Esdras Reade born in England abt. 
1600, died in Boston July 27,1680; by 
his first wife Alice he had' two children, 
both baptized at Salem .May 31, L640; 
in 1670 he had a wife Sarah. He re- 
ported his children at Chelmsford Feb. 1 , 
1656-7 as "Bethia abt. 10" and "Oba- 
diah abt. 17." 
1. Bethia- b. 1638, d. in Canterbury, 

Conn. abt. 1718; m. at Woburn Apr. 

28, L657 John Johnson, son of Capt. 

Edward; they lived in Woburn till 

1712; had 7 children, John, Bethia, 

William, Obadiah, Joseph, Samuel, 

and Nathaniel. 
2. Obadiah 2 b. 1640 in Salem, d. in 

Boston Feb. 19, 1721-2 "in 82nd 



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year"; m. at Dorchester Aug. Hi, 1664 
Anna Swift daughter of Thomas; b. 
at Dorchester Nov. 16, 1647, d. in 
Boston Sept. 13, 1680, "aged 33"; 
m. (2) abt. 16S2 Elizabeth Brough- 
ton daughter of Thomas, b. at Water- 
town, Jan. 1."), 1645-6, d. in Boston 
Feb. 26, 1712-3 "aged 67." He had 
six children by his first wife, the three 
youngest of whom were baptized in the 
Second Church; the four children of 
the second wife were baptized in t he- 
Old South Church; all born in Boston; 
Elizabeth' 5 b. Mar. 29, 1669, m. 
July 6, 1691 Samuel Durham; she 
was his widow Jan. 10, 1730 with sur- 
viving children, Elizabeth wife of 
Richard Lyne, John Durham, Sarah 
wifeof Daniel Weyman, Mary Durham, 
and Bethia, wife of John Ingolsby, all 
of Boston. (Suffolk Deeds Vol.75,p.87. ) 

2. Sarah 3 b. Apr. 16. 1671, d. young. 

3. Anna 3 b. Feb. 3, 1672-3, m. Jan. 2, 
1700 Samuel Engs of Boston; m. (2) 
Sept. 28, 1713, William Hickin- 
botham of Boston. 

4. Thomas'"' bapt. Sept. 26, 1675, Sec- 
ond Church; a mariner, last heard 
from July 13, 1722, when he sold his 
share in his father's estate to his 
brother James (Suffolk Deeds Vol. 40, 
p. 166); m. at Boston Mar. 1, 17(17 
Mary Fifield, daughter of Capt. 
Giles and Elizabeth (Rainsford) Fi- 
field, b. in Boston Mar. 1, 16S3; their 
son, James 4 b. Sept. 16, 1700 in Boston 

5. Obadiah 3 b. Nov. 29, 1677, d. young. 

6. James 3 b. Feb. 29, 1679-80, a block- 
maker, whose son Thomas 4 was ap- 
pointed administrator of his estate 
July 17, 1761; he had wife Elizabeth 
in 1706, record of marriage not found; 
children, Anna 4 , James 4 , Thomas 4 , 
Elizabeth 4 , and Brackley 4 . 

7. Obadiah 3 b. Mar. 27, 1683, d. before 
his father; a mariner, m. Apr. 13, 1710 
Jane Perkins, daughter of Edmund, 
b. Feb. 25, 1686-7 in Boston; children 
Elizabeth 4 b. Jan. 1, 1713, Sus \\\ \ 4 
b. Sept. 28, 1717. 

8. Mary 3 b. May 4, 1684, m. May 2(1, 
171") Thomas Miller or Millne'r. 

9. Nathaniels b.Aug.23,1686,d. voung. 

10. Sarah 3 b. Jan. 26, 1687 8, d. Nov. 
23. 1764 "in 77th year"; m. July .">, 
1713, Richard Hughes. G. S. S. 



T H E R E AUK K E C ( > R I > 



£be "Reafce "Record. 



Published by the 
Reade Historical and Genealogical Association. 




Officers elected October 16, 1912. 
President. 
Rev. James Reed Boston 

Vice-Presidents. 



Brockton. 
Boston. 
I 1 1 rett. 
Si i. Weymouth. 
Bridgewater. 
( lttawa,Ont. 
York, 71 Broadw aj 



Weymouth. 



Hon. W \Ki;i n \. Reed 

( .ni I'llll II' Kl \l)l 
F.D\\ M;]i [•". Kill' 

John S. ('. Blani n \ki> 
Joshua E. Ck we . 
Edgar S. Reade 
J. I'm i ding Ri u> - New 

Treasurer. 
Hi \kv B. Ri i i) S. 

Secretaries. 
Chartj s I-. Re mi Brookline. 

Alanson H. Reed Wellesley Hills. 

Genealogist. 
George S. Stewart .Concord. 

Annual Meetings. 

Nine annual meetings of the Reade Historical 
and Genealogical Association have been held in 
Ma ssachusetts, as foll< iws: 

Taunton, July 14. 1904. 

Boston, < >i tobi r 1_'. 1905. 

South Weymouth, September 27, 1906. 

West Bridgewater, October 17. 1!MI7. 

Boston. ( Iclober 2s. 11IUS. 

Boston, October 28, 1909. 

Lexington, October 28, 1910. 

South Weymouth, < >i tober '27, lit 1 1. 

Burlington, October 16, 1912. 

YOU ARE INVITED TO JOIN. 
Remittances of membership fees should be 
sent to Charles F. Read, Secretary R. H. & 
(i A.. Old State House, Boston. Mass. 



MEMBERSHIP 

The charge for admission to the Asso- 
ciation is SI. 00 for annual membership 
and a yearly due of 81 .00 thereafter. For 
life membership $10.00 with no further 
dues. All sums received for life mem- 
bership are kept as a special permanent 
fund the interest alone being used. It 
is of great importance that the member- 
ship should be much larger than at 
present. Splendid work has been done 
in matters concerning the history and 
genealogies of the early Read immi- 
grants and the work should not stop 
for lack of funds from such a large and 
influential body as the Reed family — 
(however the name may be spelled.) An 
urgent invitation is extended to all to 
join the association, and to those of 
other names, if interested. If each pres- 
ent member will make it his or her special 
duty to secure even one new member, it 
will be a great help. 



RECENT DEATHS OF MEMBERS 

Robert L. Read of Maiden, Mass., a 
retired civil engineer, died in Tort land, 
Me., on June 9, 1912. He was born in 
Manchester, N. H., was graduated in 
Dartmouth College in 1S64 and was 
engaged in his profession lor many years 
in the West. He was much interested 
in the Reade Historical and Genealogical 
Association and attended many of its 
meetings. 

Charles B. Read, Secretary of the 
Read Carpet Co., Bridgeport Conn., 
died suddenly on July 4, L912 in endeav- 
oring to save the lives of two caretakers 
on his estate in Bridgeport. They were 
all three asphyxiated by gas fumes com- 
ing from a leak in the gas plant on Mr. 
Read's estate. 

Fred W. Read, of Bridgeport, Conn., 
a brother of Charles B. Read and his 
associate in business, died on October o, 
1911. 

Henry D. Reed of Whitman, Mass., 
died on'October 23, 1911. 



THE R E A D E R E CORD 




AL.ANSON H. REED 
Secretary Reade Historical and Genealogical Association 



THE ASAHEL REED MONUMENT 

No further action has been taken in 
this matter since the resolution at the 
South Weymouth meeting in 1911 in 
favor of the erection of a monument to 
Asahel Reed of Sudbury who went in 
Capt. Nixon's company to Lexington 
and was killed in the battle there April 
19, 177.V Mention of this has been 
made in previous issues of the Reade 
Record. It is simply a matter of sub- 
scriptions from members of the Reed- 
Read-Reid-Reade Family throughout the 
United States with which to carry on 
the work. In general a sum of $1.00 
each at the most would prove ample. 
The subscriptions to date are as follows: 
the honor of the first dollar to the cause 
being from 

Mrs. Josephine R. Lewis. South 

Duxbury si (ill 

Alanson H. Reed, Wellesley Hills 1 00 
Charles F. Read, Brookline 1 00 

J. Warner Reed, Belle Rive, [lis. LOO 



BIBLE RECORD FROM WILTON, ME. 

This family record has been copied 
for us by Mrs. E. E. Magrath, 85 Chest- 
nut St., Everett, Mass. It is taken 
from a bible formerly owned by her 
grandmother, Lucy (Reed) Green of 
Wilton. The father of this family came 
from Dunstable and the mother, whose 
maiden name was Chandler, was born 
in Westford, Mass. 

Jacob Reed born Jan. 7, 174S, died 
May 7, LSI 2, aged 64. 

Susanna Reed born Dec. 9, 17-~>4, died 
Apr. 23, 1827 aged 72. 

Their children : — 

Susanna born Feb. 1, 1770. 

Jacob b, Feb. 17, 1778; d, Jan. 13, 1806. 

Polly born Mar. 7, 17S0. 

Jonas, born Dec. 29, 1782. 

Asenath born Aug. 15, 1784. 

Moses born Sept. 22, 1786. 

Leonard b. Sept. 2, 1788, d. Feb. 26, 
1812. 

Jonathan/ 

Lucy i twins born June 27, 1794. 

Isaac born Jan. 11, 1797. 



GENEALOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS 

Our Secretaries are not genealogists 
and often are not able to answer ques- 
tions about ancestral lines, asked in 
letters sent to them. These are given to 
Mr. George S. Stewart, the official gene- 
alogist of the Association, who has made 
a >pecial study of the Read Family lines 
however name may be spelled. He will 
communicate with the inquirer and make 
arrangement for such investigation as 
may be satisfactory to both. Our mem- 
bers will receive good work at moderate 
charge. 

GEORGE S. STEWART, A.B. 

Genealogist 

New England Families Only 

20 years experience. Very moderate charges 

Search made when desired, of National, State, Count> . 
Town, and of military records to establish ancestral 
lines for entrance to patriotic societies. 

Address CEORGE S. STEWART, Concord, Mass. 



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FAMILY OF DR. PHILIP READE 
OF CONCORD 

(Reade List No. 23) 

Dr. Philip Ream: b. abt. 1624 in 
England, d. at Concord, Mass., May 10, 
1696; m. Abigail Rice of Concord, 
daughter of Richard Rice; she d. at Con- 
cord April 16, 1709. The births of four 
children are recorded at Concord, viz.: 

1. PniLip 2 b.May 13, 1671, death not 
found; m. Dec. 6, 169S Thanks Dill of 
Concord, b. there Mar. 31, 1676 daugh- 
ter of Peter and Thanks (Shepard) Dill. 
They had sons Peter 3 , Philip 3 , David 3 , 

John 3 and Jacob 3 , and perhaps other 
children. 

2. Jacob 2 b. Mar. 30, 1673, d. at 
Simsbury Conn., Dec. 3, 1709; m. April 
29, 1699, Elizabeth Law of Concord, 
daughter of John and Lydia (Draper) 
Law; she m. (2) William Moses of Sims- 
bury and d. May 13, L738. They had 
three children, born in Simsbury viz.: 
Jacob 3 b. May 1."., L700, Lydia 3 b. 1703. 
and John 3 b. June 20, 1708. 

3. Abigail 2 b. Dec. 26, lii7.">, d. at 
Concord Jan. 13, 1709; m. Mar. 2, 1697-8 
Samuel Davis of Concord; children, 
Abigail, Mary, Samuel, and Jacob. 

4. Amy 2 b. Mar. 3, 1678-9, death not 
found; m. at Simsbury, Conn., Sept. 1, 
1701, Richard Case. 

Note. At Simsbury is found the 
marriage of "Elizabeth Read of Concord 
and Samuel Adams of Simsbury July 2, 
1713" but her connection with the above 
family is not known. 

G. S. S. 



THOMAS READ OF CHELMSFORD, 

MASS. 

I Reade List No. 35) 

Neither the birthplace nor the par- 
entage of Thomas Read of Chelmsford 
has yet been found but certain deposi- 
tions by him, on file in the early Court 
Records,place the date of his birth about 
the year 1656. This fact alone is suffi- 
cient to prove that he was not a son of 
Obadiah Read of Boston for the latter 



did not marry until 1664. Unfortu- 
nately this erroneous statement of his 
parentage has obtained wide circulation 
and has been published in several local 
histories. 

The known history of Thomas begins 
in 1676 during King Philip's War, when 
he appears as a soldier in the force 
commanded by Major Thomas Savage 
of Boston, which arrived at Hadley on 
March Nth. ( Bodge's "Soldiers in King 
Philip's War," pp. 98-100). 

"About the first of April (1676) some 
inhabitants of Hadley went to Hock- 
anum to do some work, having a guard 
of soldiers with them. A party of In- 
dians, lying in wait, killed Deacon 
Richard Goodman and two of the sol- 
diers and took Thomas Reed, another 
soldier." (Judd's History of Hadley, 
pp. L57-8). 

Mrs. Mary Rowlandson who had been 
captured at Lancaster Feb. 10th, 1676; 
and was at this time held a prisoner by 
the savages, makes the following refer- 
ence to this affair in her published 
Narrative: "About this time they it he 
Indians) came yelping from Hadley, hav- 
ing there killed three Englishmen, and 
brought one captive with them, viz., 
Thomas Read. They all gathered about 
the poor man, asking him many ques- 
tions. I desired also to go and see him; 
and when I came he was crying bitterly, 
supposing they would quickly kill him. 
Whereupon I asked one of them whether 
they intended to kill him; lie answered 
me they would not. He being a little 
cheered with that, I asked him about 
the welfare of my husband; he told me 
he saw him such a time in the Bay (/. e. 
Boston) and he was well but very 
melancholy." 

Thomas Read remained a prisoner but 
little more than a month as may be 
learned from the letter of Rev. John 
Russell, dated at Hadley May 15, 1676. 
"This morning about sunrise came into 
Hatfield one Thomas Reede a soldier 
who was taken captive when Deacon 
Goodman was slain. He relates that 
they (the Indians) are now planting at 
Deerfield and have been so these three 



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or four days or more; saith further that 
they dwell at the Falls on both sides 
the river, are a considerable number, 
yet most of them old men and women. 
He can not judge that there are on both 
sides of the river above 60 or 70 fighting- 
men. They are secure and scornful, 
boasting of great things they have done 
and will do. There is Thomas Eames 
his daughter and child hardly used; one 
or two belonging to Medfield and I 
think two children belonging to Lancas- 
ter. The night before last they came 
down to Hatfield upper meadow, and 
have driven away many horses and cattle 
to the number of fourscore and upwards 
as they judge. Many of these this man 
saw in Deerfield meadow and found the 
bars put up to keep them in. This 
being the state of things, we think the 
Lord calls us to make some trial what 
may be done against them suddenly 
without further delay; and the concur- 
ring resolution of men here seems to be 
to go out against them tomorrow night, 
so as to be with them, the Lord assist- 
ing, before break of day." A postscript 
by three officers follows: "Although this 
man speaks of their number as he judgeth 
yet they may be many more, for we 
perceive their number varies and they 
are going and coming, so that there is 
no trust to his guess." The intended 
movement was postponed till May ISth, 
and resulted in the battle generally 
known as "The Falls Fight" in which 
the English commander, Capt. William 
Turner, and about 40 of his men were 
killed. That Thomas Rea i was present 
at this engagement is certain. Sixty 
years afterward, a township of land was 
granted to the officers and men who 
took part therein and the "List ap- 
proved by the Committee of the Gen- 
eral Court," dated June 17)50, includes 
the name of "Thomas Read, Westford''; 
that he was dead at this time is shown 
by an additional list of claimants under 
this grant, dated June 23, 17">(i, which 
contains the name of "John Reed, West- 
lord, son of Thomas Reed." (Bodge 
pp. 250-253.) 

Westford was set off from Chelmsford 



in 1729; Thomas Read was a resident 
of the latter place in 1070 and was 
made freeman on April 1st of that year 
(Middlesex Court Files); he married 
about this time Hannah, daughter of 
John and Elizabeth (Hills) Blanchard 
of Chelmsford, who was born in Charles- 
town Jan. 6, 1058-9. The Chelmsford 
constable reported June 14, 1079 that 
"Thomas Read and Hannah Read, his 
wife, is fled away out of our town, we 
know not whither," and on Sept. 27 
following that "Thomas Rade and hanna 
Blanchar are run away out of this 
county and I am informed they are 
gone to the southward." That he re- 
turned to Chelmsford within five years 
is indicated by the following deposition 
relating to a well known resident of that 
place: "Thomas Read aged 28 years or 
thereabouts testifieth that sometime in 
the beginning of the present month of 
April he did see Abraham Parker Junior 
sell to the Indians at Wamesit two 
quarts of Rumme," taken upon oath 
Apr. 28, L684. 

He received a grant of land from the 
town Feb. 2, 1685 as the Chelmsford 
records show, "The day above, given 
to Thomas Read his wife and heirs for- 
ever, 4 acres of land formerly granted 
to William Good, on condition that he 
erect a dwelling on same and improve 
it for his own benefit, but not to sell." 
His wife Hannah received bequests by 
the will of her grandfather, Mr. Joseph 
Hills of Maiden, and from her father 
who died at Dunstable in 1694; she was 
Mill fixing at Chelmsford in 1718 but 
the date of her death is not reported. 

Thomas Read was by trade a tailor 
and apparently prospered until long past 
middle age and his children received a 
good start in life. At the trial of Ed- 
ward Spaulding Jr. of Chelmsford in 
1090, Thomas Read was a witness and 
in his deposition taken Dec. 20, he gave 
his age as "40 years or thereabouts" 
which agrees perfectly with his state- 
ment made twelve years before, al- 
ready noted. His property had all passed 
out of his hands prior to May 10, 172.">, 
at which time he is described as "an 



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THE READE RECORD 



ancient and infirm man" and he went 
to reside temporarily with Ephraim 
Craft of Chelmsford, who had married 
his daughter, Hannah Read, May 15, 
1699. The names of his five sons, John, 
Thomas, William, Jonathan, and Ben- 
jamin, appear on the Court Records this 
same year, all residents of Chelmsford 
and "men of great estate." Of these 
the birth of Benjamin only, is now to be 
found at Chelmsford; he was born Oct. 
23, 1698. The son Thomas, who later 
became a very prominent man in West- 
ford, was still called "Thomas Read 
Junior" in a deed dated Sept. 30, 1730, 
which seems to indicate that his lather 
was then living and the exact date of his 
death does not appear. G. S. S. 



FAMILY OF THOMAS READ OF 
CHELMSFORD 

iReade List No. 35) 

Thomas Read, b. 1656, d. 1730-1736, 
probably in Westford; m. 1679 Hannah 
Blanchard of Chelmsford, b. in Charles- 
town Jan. 6, 1658-9, d. probably in 
Chelmsford 1718-1725, daughter of John 
and Elizabeth (Hills) Blanchard. The 
list of their children is possibly incom- 
plete; 

1. Hannah- birth not found; m. 
at Chelmsford May 15, 1699, Ephraim 
Craft of Roxbury, b. there Aug. 9, 
1677, son of John and Mary (Hudson) 
Craft. They removed from Roxbury to 
Chelmsford about 1724 and lived in the 
part which became Westford in 1729; 
dates of death not found. Children, 
John, Ephraim, Hannah, Thomas, Wil- 
liam, Mary, Mary, Samuel, William. 

2. John- b. in Westford 16S5, d. in 
Westford Jan. lit, 17(i7 "in his S2nd 
year"; m. at Charlestown Jan. 10, 1 706-7, 
Jane Chamberlain of Chelmsford, b. 
there Jan. 19, 1682-3, d. in Westford 
Oct. 2, 1771 "in her 89th year," daughter 
of Thomas and Sarah (Proctor) Cham- 
berlain. The births of ten children are 
recorded at Chelmsford, viz., Mary 3 
b. July 3, 1707; John 3 b. Feb. 3, 1709; 



Samuel 3 b. Aug. 7. 1711; Thomas' 1 b. 
Oct. 25, 1713; William 3 b. Apr. 2, 1715; 
|\\i. ; b. Apr. 1, 1717; Sarah 3 b. Feb. 
22, 1719; "Bettv" 3 b. May 27, 1721; 
Hannah 3 b. Jan. 15, 1723; Lucy 3 b. 
July 16. 1727. 

3. Thomas 2 b. in Chelmsford 1687; 
d. in Westford Dec. 24, 1773 "in his 
87th year"; m. at Charlestown Mar. 14, 
1709 Sarah Fletcher of Chelmsford, 
b. there Jan. 21, 1690 1, d. in Westford 
Dec. 25, 1774 "in her 84th year," 
daughter of Joshua and Sarah (Wiley) 
Fletcher. The births of seven children 
are recorded at Chelmsford and two at 
Westford vi/.: Sarah 3 b. Mar. 25, 1711; 
Sarah 3 b. Aug. 17, 1712; Timothy 3 b. 
Mar. 21. 1714; Josi PH 3 b. June 4, 1716; 
Katharine 3 b. 1718 (record not found); 
Hannah 3 b. Apr. 26, 1724; Ki beci \ ; 
b. May 26, 1727; Eleazer 3 b. Feb. 22, 
1731; Benjamin 3 b. Sept. 3, 1732. 

1. Jonathan 2 birth and death not 
found; by wife Margaret he had two 
children whose births are recorded at 
Chelmsford, viz. ; Hannah 3 b. Mar. 17, 
1715. "Bl isev" 3 b. Jan. 15, 1717. 

5. William- birth and death not 
found; m. Hannah Baits of Chelms- 
ford, daughter of John and Deborah. 
The births of two children are record 
at Chelmsford and two more at West- 
ford, viz., Robert 3 b. Dec. 25, 1720; 
Willi \m 3 b. Feb. 25, 1724 5; Deborah 3 
b. July 10, 1729; Lois 3 b. Feb. 3, 1734. 

(i. Bentamin- I), in Chelmsford Oct. 
23, 1698, death not found. G. S. S. 



THE WILL OF OBADIAH READ OF 
BOSTON 

"In The Name of God Amen, This 
Third day of January In the Year of 
Our Lord, One Thousand Seven Hun- 
dred & Eighteen I Obediah Read of 
Boston in the County of Suffolk in New 
England Housewright Being Aged but 
of Sound and perfect Memory I praised 
be God for the same) And knowing the 
uncertainty of This Transitory life, And 
calling To minde the Mortality of my 



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Body, And That it is appointed for all 
men Once to Die I Am desirous To Settle 
Things in Order before I Die. I Do 
therefore make this my Last Will & 
Testament in Manner and Forme Fol- 
lowing (Viz) First & Principally I Com- 
mend my Soul to Almighty God my 
Creator and my Body To the Earth To 
be Buried in Such desent & Christian 
Manner as To My Executors hereafter 
Named Shall be Judged Meet & Con- 
venient. And Touching Such Worldly 
Goods & Estate as The Lord in Mercy 
hath Lent me, My Just Debts being 
first Paid and My Funerall Charges 
defreied My Will & Meaning is. That 
the Residue of my Estate Shall be Im- 
plored & Bestowed As is hereafter in 
This my Will Expressed. That is To 
Say I Gire and Bequeath my House and 
Land which is Lying & Being at the 
North End of Boston near Charlestown 
Ferry (wch Land is One Hundred & 
Fifty Seven feet Long or thereabouts 
Through the Middle of the Lott, Fifty 
eight foot Wide toward the Lower End 
upon Linn's Street, & Fifty One foot 
wide at the upper End next the Street 
that Leads To the Burying Yard.) Unto 
my Sons, Thomas Read, James Read, 
Obadiah Read, and To my Grand Son 
Johx Durram in Manner Following 
(Viz) I Give To my Son Thomas Read 
and His Heirs the Lower End or North 
Easterly End of Said House parting at 
the Midle of the Chemnys and the North 
Easterly part of said Lott of Land on 
which the sd End of the said House 
Stands upon it Being Bounded begining 
at the Northwesterly Side of sd Lott at 
the Midle of the Chemnys aforesd and 
Then To Run Through the Midle of 
the sd Chemnys Thirty Two foot from 
the North westerly Side of the sd Lott, 
Then To Turn & Run wth a Line in 
Proportion with the Two Side Lines of 
sd Lott of Land Down to Low Water 
Mark: Itim. I Give to my said Son 
James Read & his heirs the Upper End 
of sd House parting at the Middle of the 
Chemnys as Aforesd & the Land On 
wch the sd House Stands upon and 
Twenty Two foot of Land more from 



sd uper End of sd House and from Thence 
To run South Easterly Through the 
whole Lot with a line parrallel to the 
upper end of sd Lott of Land and Then 
Turning and Runing down as sd Lott 
Runs to Low Water Marke and so 
Northwesterly upon my sd Son Thomas 
Reads Land Aforesd And I also Give 
To my sd Son James Read The Smith 
Shop which is Standing upon his sd 
part of sd Lott of Land: 

Itim I Give unto my sd Son Obediah 
Read & his Heirs The South Westerly 
or Upper End of sd Lott of Land, 
Twenty foot Downward (upon Each 
Side of Said Lott of Land,) from the 
uper end & so with a Line (thro the 
whole Weadth of sd Lott of Land I 
parrallal to the upper end of Said Lott 
of Land. Itim I Give unto my Said 
Grand Son Johx Durram and his Heirs 
The Remaining part of all my sd Lott 
of Land which lys Between The Lands 
I gave to my Sons Obadiah Read and 
James Read aforesd: I also Give and 
Bequeath unto all my Sons aforesd & 
Their Heirs And To my sd Grandson & 
his heirs The Preveledge & Use of my 
Well & The Use and preveledge of the 
Water Side and Liberty of Landing upon 
the Wharfe (that belongs To sd Lott of 
Land). Itim I Give Unto my sd Son 
< IB] i 'i aii Read & his heirs my Hundred 
Acres of Land Lying & Being in Kitten- 
In the County of Yorke — 

Itim I Give unto my Daughter Sarah 
Hughes and To my Daughter Anna 
Hickinbottome And to my Daughter 
Mary Miller* all the Houses & Lands 
which I have Now Lying and Being In 
Blackhorse Lane in Boston Aforesd in 
Manner Following (Viz) I give to my 
Daughter Mary Miller and Her Heirs 
The Shop her Husband now works in 
and The Dwelling House Adjoining To 
It Together with The Lands they Stand 
upon and Thirty foot of Land in Length 
from the North Easterly End of The sd 
Dwelling House Northeasterly Thirty 
Foot as Aforesd. into the Garden 
i Towards the Little House & the whole 
weadth of the Dwelling House Aforesaid 
and the Other Little Shop which Joyns 



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To the Shop aforesd Provided She moves 
off The Same within Six Months after 
my Decease Together with The Use & 
Preveledge of The Well & Little House 
and Liberty of all my Yard To pass 
and Repass in: Itim. I Give To my 
Daughter Sarah Hughes and her heirs 
And Anna Hickinbotham and her heirs 
The Remainder of all my sd Lands Ly- 
ing in Black Horse Lane aforesd To- 
gether with my House I Dwell in in 
Equall parts Anna my Daughter Aforesd 
paying To my Executors hereafter 
Named the Sum of Sixty Seven pounds 
Sixteen Shillings & Two pence For & 
Towards the payment of the Legacys 
hereafter in This my Will Given: Itim 
I Give unto my sd Daughter Sarah 
Hughes Sixty Seven pounds Sixteen 
Shillings & Two pence To be paid To 
her or her Heirs within Eight Months 
after my Decease. I Also Give unto my 
said Daughter Sarah my Still and the 
Bed and Bolster She Now Lyes upon: 
I Also Give unto my sd Daughter M \i;\ 
Miller the Bed and Bolster which 1 
Ly upon & my Great Looking Glass. It 
is also my minde & Will That for and 
in consideration of the Lands Before 
mentioned which I Gave to my Sons, 
Thomas Read & Obadiah Read That 
my Said Son Thomas Read Shall Pay 
to my Executors Hereafter Named The 
Sum of Eighty Pounds in Money and 
that my Said Son Obediah Read Shall 
also pay To my Executors hereafter 
Named The Sum of Fifty Pounds In 
Money for and towards the payment 
of Such Debts as I Shall Leave' After 
my Decease. Itim. I Give to my sd 
Son James Read my Grind Stone and 
also all My House Carpentry Tools and 
Joyners Tools. And it likewise is My 
Mind and Will that all the rest of my 
Personal Estate & Household Stoof 
Whatever and Wheresoever Lying and 
being which I have not already Disposed 
of Shall after my Decease be Equally 
Divided between my Four Daughters 
(Viz) my Daughter Elizabeth Durram 
and my Daughter Anna Hickinbot- 
tome & my Daughter Mary Miller 
And my Daughter Sarah Hughes. And 



Lastly I Do Appoint my sd. Son James 
Read And my Wellbeloved Friend John 
Briggs Late of Scittuate but now of 
Boston aforesd To be my Executors to 
this my Last Will & Testament. 

In Witness Whereof I the sd Obediah 
Read have hereunto Set my hand and 
Seal This Third Day of January In the 
Year of Our Lord One Thousand and 
Seven hundred & Eighteen. 

Obediah Read and a Seal. 

Signed Sealed & Declared and Pub- 
lished by the sd Obediah Read to he 
his Last W'ill & Testament In the 
Presence of us the Subscribers. 
Joshua Gee Junr 
Hannah Jolls 
Hannah Merrit 

CODICIL 

Be it known unto all men by these 
Presents That whereas I, Obediah Read 
of Boston in the County of Suffolk in 
New England Housewright have made 
& declared my last Will & Testament 
in Writing bearing date the third day 
of January In the year of Our Lord One 
Thousand Seven hundred and Eighteen 
I the said Obediah Read by this present 
Codicil Do ratify & Confirm my said 
last Will & Testament, and my mind 
& will is that my sons Thomas Ri \i> 
James Read my daughter Anna Hick- 
inbotom & my Daughter Sarah Hughes 
shall each of them or Each of their heirs 
or Assigns pay unto my Executors the 
sum of Eight Pounds & ten shillings 
apiece out of their Portions or Legacies 
which I have already given them in my 
said last Will & Testament. Thirty 
Pounds of said Moneys I Give unto my 
Grand Daughter Elizabeth Read 
my son Obediah Read's Daughter & 
my mind & will is that the said Thirty 
Pounds shall be Improved for the Use 
of my said Grand Daughter Elizabeth 
Ri ad by my Executors untill my said 
I Grand Daughter shall arrive to the age 
of Eighteen years or be married & then 
my mind & will is that my said Execu- 
tors shall pay the said Thirty pounds of 



T UK KEADE RE CO K 1) 



15 



money with Improvements thereof unto 
my Grand Daughter Elizabeth Read 
aforesaid Item. I Give unto my Sister 
Hannah Broughton & my Sister Sarah 
Broughton forty shillings apiece to be 
to them paid by my said Executors 
within Six Months time after my De- 
cease And in case my said Grand daugh- 
ter Elizabeth Read & my said Sister 
Sarah Broughton and my said Sister 
Hannah Broughton they or either of 
them should dye before the aforesaid 
times which they are to Receive their 
particular Sums of money aforesaid, that 
then the said particular Legacy shall be 
equally divided by said Executors to 
and among my said Son Thomas Read 
my said Son James Read my sd Daugh- 
ter Anna Hickinbottome and my said 
Daughter Sarah Hughes their heirs & 
assigns. And my Will & Meaning is 
that this Codicil or Schedule be & be 
Adjudged to be part & parcell of my 
said last Will & Testament and that all 
things herein mentioned & contained 
be faithfully & truly performed & as full 
& as amply in every respect as if the 
same were so declared & set in my said 
last Will & Testament. In Witness 
whereof I the said Obediah Read have 
hereunto set my hand and seal this Sec- 
ond day of March In the year of our 
Lord one Thousand seven hundred and 
Twenty one 1720-1. 

Obediah Read 

Signed Sealed declared & Published by 
the said Obediah Read to be part & 
parcel of his said last Will & Testament 
In the presence of us the Subscribers. 
Hannah Jolls 
Deborah Brigg 
Jane Stevens 
Elizabeth Roberts' mark. 

Administration on this estate was 
granted to James Read, the surviving 
executor April 2, 1722. 

*Though this name is Miller in this 
will and elsewhere, the party referred to 
wrote the name Millner. 



IReaoe (Historical ano 
(Scnealooical association. 



LIFE MEMBERS 

Crane, Joshua E. . . Bridgewater, Mass. 

Lefferts, Marshall C. New York, N. Y. 

Read, Charles F. . . Boston. 

Read, Miss Clara A. . New Bedford, Mass 

Read, Miss Ella H. . New Bedford, Mass. 

Read, J. Paulding New York, N.Y. 

Read, Samuel H. . . New Haven, Conn. 

*Read, Miss Sarah E. Boston. 

Read, William A. . New York, N. Y. 

Reade, Edgae S. . Ottawa, Ont. 

Reed, Alanson H. . Wellesley Hills, Mass. 

Reed, Charles W. Boston. 

Reed, Edgar . . . Worcester, Mass. 

Reed, George B. . Bloomington, Ills. 

Reed. Rev. James . Boston. 

Reed, Reuben L. - So. Acton. Mass. 

Reed, William B. New York. X. Y. 

Robinson, Mrs. G. Read New York. N. Y. 

W vri kmax, Mrs. Lewis A. 

Providence, R. I. 

' [ )!.( EASED 

ANNUAL MEMBERS 

Akin, Mrs. Emma Read New York, X. Y. 
Blackmer, Mrs. Catherine 

Tufts College, Mass. 
ill. am hard, John S. C. So. Weymouth, Mass 
Blanchard, Miss MaryL. 

So. Weymouth, Mass. 
Hi wchard, Miss Susanna R. 

So. Weymouth, Mass. 
Bri \i\n r. Mrs. Mary A. C. 

Lisbon, X. II. 
Champion, William J. Boston. 
Clarke, Arthur F. Brookline, Mass. 

Clarke. Miss Helen G. Brookline, Mass 
Cross, Mrs. Grace L. Providence. R. I. 
i. ross, Rev. R. T. . Cleveland. Ohio. 

Deane, Miss Eleanor R. 

Roxbury, Mass. 
Dodd, Rev. Henry M. Clinton, X. Y. 
Elwell, Mrs. Cynthia So. Weymouth, Mass 
Everett, Mrs. Charlotte S. Chicago, Ills. 
Farr, Mrs. Virgin] \ Reed Atlanta, Ga. 
Faxon, Mrs. Sis\x Stoughton, Mass. 

Field, Mrs. Ami m\ C. Dorchester, Mass. 
Field, J. Howard . Brockton, Mass. 

Gale, Mrs. Addie P. . East Pepperell, Mass. 
Goodrii ii. Mrs. Ella R. Hartford, Conn. 
I ii RNEY, Theron S. . Hart, Michigan. 
Hallett, Miss S \ r \ i i X. Boston. 



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THE READ E K E C O K D 



Head, Mrs. Esther Reed Madison, Wis. 
Hession, Mrs. Mabel S. Bridgeport, Conn. 
Hodges, Miss Mary A. Foxboro, Mass. 
Hotchkiss, Mrs. Anna M. 

Bridgeport, Conn. 
Hubbard, Mrs. Charles T. 

Taunton, Mass. 
Hutchinson, Edward B. Cambridge, Mass. 
I ICKSON, -Mrs. Mary A. East Orange. X. J. 
Kimball, Mrs. Helen F. Brookline, Mass. 
Lewis, James E. . Taunton, Mass. 

Lewis, Mrs. Josephine R. 

So. Duxbury, Mass. 
Luther. Miss Lucy E. Chicago, Ills. 
Merri am, Mrs. Helen Read Syracuse, N. V. 
Merrow, Mrs. Ren a M. Maiden, Mass. 
Morse, Willard S. . New York, X. V. 
Morss, Mrs. Ethel Reed 

Boston. 
Orcutt, Jason B. . . So. Weymouth, Mass. 
Pettee, Mrs. Georgiana E. 

Roxbury, Mass 
Pierce. Mrs. Mary A. Taunton, Mass. 
Prescott, Miss Clara F. Lawrence, Mass. 
Prouty, Mrs. Mary Reed Scituate, Mass. 



Raymond, I) \mel V 
Read, Albert E. . 
Read, Charles F. 
Ri \i>, Iiwid F. 
Read, Miss Edith B. 
Read, Rev. Ephraim A 
Read, Edward M. 
ki id, Frederick !•'. 
Read, George R 



Tompkinsville, X. V. 
Pittsburg, Pa. 

Worcester. Mass. 
Bridgeport, Conn. 
Brookline, Mass. 
\.i Salem X. \'. 
Si. Louis, Mo. 
Manhasset, X. Y. 
New York, X. V. 



ki u> Mm Harmon Pumpelly Albany, N. Y. 



Read, Harold C 
Ri \u, Henry P. 
Read, Hon. Joseph 
Read, Dr. Joshua W. 

Kl \\>, X MM \\ H. 
Rl U>. X vniAMEL T. 

Re.ad, William 

Reade, Rev. Charles G. Cincinnati, Ohio 
Charles H. Hoboken, X. J. 

Reade, Miss Emilie V.. Hoboken. X. J. 
Reade, Mrs. Rowena H. Lowell, Mass. 
Reade, Gen. Phild? . Boston. 
Reade, Rev. Stephen F. Fort Pierce, Fla. 



Brookline. Mass 
Brooklyn, X. V. 

Summerside, P. E. I. 
\i w \rk, X. J. 
Attleboro, Mass. 
East Pembroke, X. Y 
Cambridge, Mass. 



Reade, William J 
Reed, Aaron A. 
Reed, Alanson L. . 
Reed, Albert M. . 
Reed. Burton F. . 
Reed, Charles A. . 
Reed, Charles Dana 
Reed, Charles F. . 
Reed. Charles H. 
Reed, Charles K. 
Reed, Miss Clara M 
Reed, Clarence D. 
Reed, Edward D. . 
Reed, Edward F. . 
Reed. Edward T. . 
Reed, Miss Elizabeth 
Reed, Miss Ellen A 
Reed, Eugene W\ . 



Hoboken, X. J. 
Whitman, ll;i«. 
Biltmore, Xo. Carolina. 
Albany X. Y. 
Boston. 

Manchester. Mass. 
New York. X. Y. 
Whitman. Mass. 
Westboro, Mass. 
Worcester, Mass. 
Westfield, Mass. 
Whitman, Mass. 
Buffalo, N. Y. 
Everett, Mass. 
Albany. X. Y. 
Boston. 

New Haven. Conn. 
No. Brookfield, Mass. 



Reed, E. M. . . . 

Reed, Francis . ... 
Reed, Francis B. . 
Reed, Mrs. Frank A. 
Reed, Frank H. 
ki i d. Feed L. . . . 
Reed, Frederic H. 
Reed, Frederick E. . 
Reed, (ii orge A. . 
Reed, Rev. George H. 
Reed, Harold F. 
Reed, Rev. Harry W. 



Wellesley Hills, Mass. 
Worcester. Mass. 
E. Weymouth, Mass. 
Detroit, Mich. 
West Mansfield, Mass 
Cohasset, Mass. 
New York, N. Y. 
Thompson, Conn. 
Los Angeles, Calif. 
Concord, X. H. 
Wellesley Hills, Mass. 
Watertown, N. Y. 



Reed, Miss Helen Leah Cambridge, Mass 



Reed, Henry B. 

Ri i d. Mrs. Henry B. . 

Reed, Homer, J. 

Ri ed. | \\ii S krsSELL 

Reed, Joseph M. . 

Reed, Miss Julia L. . 

ki i p. Dr. J. How mm) 

Ki i d. J. Warner . 

Reed, Latham G. . 

Reed, Capt. Lewis 

Reed, Mis-; Lucy H. . 



Reed, Mrs.Margaret E. Boston. 



So. Weymouth, Mass. 
So. Weymouth, Mass. 
Canandaigua, X. Y. 

Boston. 

Rockport, Mass. 
Baltimore, M<1. 
New York. \. Y. 
Belle Rive, Ills. 
Xew York, N. Y. 
Rockland, Mass. 
So. Weymouth, Mass. 



E. Whitman, Mass. 
So. Weymouth, Mass. 
Manchester. X. H. 
Boston. 

Fair Haven \'t. 
Boston. i 

Taunton, Mass. 
New York V Y. 
Brockton, Mass. 
Westfield, Mass. 
Xew York, X. Y. 



Reed, Marshall 

kl I D. Ql IM'V 

ki i d, Ralph D. 
Reed, Robert C. . 
Reed, Rolland C. 
Reed, Samuel B. . 
Reed, Hon. Silas D. . 
Reed, Sylvanus A. 
ki i p. Hon. Warren A. 
Reed, William B. . 
ki 1 d. William B.. Jr. . 
Reed, Dr. William E. 

Washingtonville, X. Y. 
Reed, William E. . . New York, N. Yl 
Ri i D, William Howell, Jr. Roxbury, Mass. 
Reed. W. H. . . Denver. Colo. 

Reed, William T. . Boston. 

Reed, Win'FIeld S.. Bangor. Me. 

Reld, George D. . 

Moose Jaw, Saskati hawan. 
Reid, Mrs. Wiilliam T. Belmont, Calif, 
ki ssell, Miss H. Priscilla 

Arlington, Mass. 
Russell, Mrs. Louisa S. Arlington, Mass. 
Sawyer. Mrs. Edward E. 

Lowell, Mass. 
Scott, Mrs. Lydia E. R. Roxbury, Mass. 
Smith, Mrs. Mary Reed Newton Centre,Mass 
Slow ill, Mrs. Charles H. 

Lowell, Mass. 
Turman, Mrs. Helen L. R. 

Atlanta, Ga. 
Walker, George L. . Taunton, Mass. 
Washburn, Mrs. Grace B. 

Brookline, Mass. 
Webb, Mrs. Ellen Reed. 

Scituate, Mass. 
Wilkinson, Mrs. Anna Reed 

Providence, R. I. 
Wood, Frank H. ■ So. Weymouth, Mass. 

Wood, Mrs. Julia A. R. So. Weymouth, Mass. 



XLhc IReafce IRecorb. 



Number VI. BOSTON. MAS?. 



1913 



READE HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL 
ASSOCIATION. 



The tenth annual meeting of the Reade Historical and 
Genealogical Association was held in the American House, 
Boston, on Thursday, October 30, 1913. 

. A reception was held at half-past twelve, at which the Pres- 
ident of the Association, Rev. James Reed of Boston, and his 
wife, received and greeted the company. 

A dinner was served at one o'clock, after which a business 
meeting was held at which the officers of the Association 
were re-elected and the reports of the Treasurer and the 
Secretaries were read and approved. 

The Secretaries were appointed a Committee to procure 
a Charter of Incorporation from the Commonwealth of Massa- 
chusetts, with such change of name as would shorten it for 
Qiore convenient use. 

A paper concerning the " Reade Coat of Arms," an abstract 
of which appears on another page of this issue, was read by 
Mr. Alanson H. Reed. 

A design for a new Membership with a different Coat 
of Arms in colors was submitted and approved. 

A social hour followed at which Miss Helen Leah Reed 
read selections from her poetical works, and Miss J. Leland 
Clarke and Mr. James W. White gave a musical program 
which afforded much enjoyment. 

Charles F. Read ) 
■^ Y Secretaries. 

Alanson H. Reed ) 

Boston, October 30, 19 13. 



THE R E A I) E R EC OKI) 



THE HERALDRY OF READES 

Some ten years ago, when the Reade 
Historical and Genealogical Association 
was formed for the study of the family 
genealogies, little attention was paid 
I >v its founders to the subject of heraldry. 

When, however, it was decided to 
is>ue certificates of membership, the 
question of the proper arms to be used 
in this connection was brought up and 
the officers of the Association, acting 
upon advice which then seemed good, 
adopted the arms which appear on 
the present membership certificates and 
are familiar to all our members today. 

As time passed, an increasing interest 
in the subject of Rcadf heraldry led to 
a more critical study of the matter, 
with some surprising results to those 
who had not investigated. On reference 
to the "Encyclopedia Heraldica" there 
were found to be no less than forty- 
nine different coats-of-arms associated 
with the Reade name under its various 
forms, granted to individuals living in 
widely- separated places in England, 
Scotland. Ireland, and Wales, from 
very early dates to the present time, 
a number of these arms are now obsolete, 
while others are of comparatively recent 
creation. Now it seems to be the 
general belief that every surname has 
distinctive arms, which may with pro- 
priety be used by anyone of the name, 
whatever their lineage. This is easily- 
shown to be a mistaken view when we 
consider the many Reade arms noted 
above, with their great variety of 
heraldic emblems and devices. 

As a matter of fact, the arms of the 
earliest times were doubtless assumed by. 
the individuals who made use of them 
but later were conferred by Royal 
grants, as a reward for some special 
service, and in England the Herald's 
College in London has control of all 
matters of this kind. 

At first, the use of arms was a matter 
purely personal with the individual to 
whom they were granted but as time 
went on, custom made them hereditary 
and thus the use of a particular coat- 



of-arms came to signify descent by blood 
from the original grantee. This brings 
us to the consideration of the right or 
propriety of the use of a coat-of-arms 
by those who are unable to prove that 
they are thus descended or related. 

In the "Encyclopedia Heraldica," 
it can be seen that the arms which the 
Reade Historical and Genealogical Asso- 
ciation had been using in the past, is 
that of an English Reade family of 
which, so far as known, there is not a 
single descendant in all America. Al- 
though there is no law here which for- 
bids the appropriation of this or any 
other Read arms, yet when rightly under- 
stood, it does not seem the proper course 
to take. Our Association has no wish 
or intent to make use of arms which 
properly belong to others and thus, 
from the heraldic point of view, set up 
misleading and unfounded claims of 
descent and relationship, and the ob- 
jection to the arms we are now using 
extends equally to the others of the 
forty-nine above-mentioned. Neverthe- 
less it is important and desirable that 
our Association should have distinctive 
insignia or arms which shall belong to it 
of right, not only for their decorative 
value but for sentimental reasons, as 
we are descendants of the pioneer im- 
migrants of the Reade name, some of 
whom made use of arms themselves, 
and because we are naturally interested 
in the achievements, history, and ro- 
mance of the ancient Reade families of 
the Old World as exemplified in heraldry. 

Hence to bring this matter before the 
Association for consideration at the 
annual meeting, the Secretaries secured 
the services of an eminent heraldic 
artist, Mr. T. B. Hapgood, Jr., who 
submitted a design for a new member- 
ship certificate bearing a coat-of-arms 
sufficiently distinctive to avoid the 
criticism directed against the present 
arms, yet bearing emblems which may 
be interpreted to denote our connection 
as Americans with the ancient Reades 
across the water. 

The griffin segreant and the garbs 
or sheaves of wheat are found as charges 






a, 



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THE READE RECORD 



or emblems on some of the older Reade 
arms, though a variety of others are 
also used. In the design submitted, 
the griffin segreant is emblazoned in 
the shield and an eagle displayed be- 
tween two sheaves of wheat in the chief 
or upper part of the shield. The colors 
gold and red may be taken as represent- 
ing the old home in Great Britain and 
the silver and blue the comparatively 
new one in America. This met with the 
approval of the members present and 
has been adopted as the official arms of 
The Reade Society, the designation by 
which our Association was incorporated 
under the laws of Massachusetts Febru- 
ary 24. 1914. 

By the charter obtained, The Reade 
Society is empowered ' to adopt suit- 
able emblems, arms, or insignia for the 
use of said Corporation and its members. ' 

A. H. R. 

INCORPORATION 

In order to place our organization in 
better form for perpetuity and for the 
conservation of its funds, and to secure 
the right for it to own real estate or 
receive any bequest that may be made 
to it in the future, it was voted at the 
annual meeting of the Association in 
October, 1913, to incorporate under 
the laws of the Commonwealth of 
Massachusetts. As it seemed advisable 
for many reasons to adopt a shorter 
name, the Association has been incor- 
porated under the designation of The 
Reade Society, and all members of The 
Reade Historical and Genealogical Asso- 
ciation in good standing have been 
voted into the new corporation. 

The change in name and other con- 
siderations mentioned elsewhere, made 
necessary a new membership certificate 
which will probably be issued before 
this paper is sent out. 



EXPLANATORY 

The present number of the "Reade 
Record" should have been issued in 
December, 1913, but by reason of the 



change in the name of the Association, 
its incorporation, the work upon the 
new certificate with its coat-of-arms and 
other matters, the paper has been de 
laved until well into the next year. 
In order, however, to keep our file in 
regular shape, it has been thought best 
to issue this No. 6 under the old name, 
"The Reade Historical and Genealogical 
Association." and with the same list 
of officers as then obtained — just the 
same in fact as if the paper had actually 
been published in December, HILT 
The next number for 1014 will appear 
under the new incorporated name, " The 
Reade Society," with the list of officers 
elected at the incorporation meeting. 
This will explain why a paper of the date 
of 1913 may contain some information, 
items or dates of 1914. It is expected 
hereafter that "The Reade Record" 
will appear at its due time, with the 
loyal support of the Society's members 
as given in the past. 



HON. JOHN REID, 1666-1743 
Surveyor-General of New Jersey, 1702 

The following account of this Scotch 
immigrant, written by himself, is copied 
from the Bartow Genealogy (pp. 245- 
247.) 

"At Niddrew Castle in the parish 
of Kirkliston, I was born the 13th of 
February, 1655-6, and there baptized: 
where my father was Gard'ner and be- 
fore him my Grandfather. I was put to 
school till near nine years old when my 
Father died 9br 1663. The January 
after, I bound my self to arrive of agi 
to a printer of Edinburgh, 1667-8. Mr. 
died before my time expired and with 
my small stock I returned 9br 1673 to 
my mother who had then married again 
and I was persuaded to learn the old 
but pleasant art of Gard'nery and alter 
I had seen what I could expect then-, 
went to the celebrated gardens of 
Hamilton 9br 1(171 where I dived into 
that noble science bul al I he same time 



1 II E K E AIM. HtCHKD 



happily drawn into Quakerism by their 
great professions of sanctity and im- 
mediate inspirations and I doubted not 
of their soundness in the Christian 
religion. Hen Woods conversion then 
especially prevailed with me who was 
of a gaining order. Thence I went to 
Drummond 9br 1(>75. Thence to Law- 
re- alias Forden 27th 9br 1676. There 
1 wrote the Scots Gard'ner and was 
married 29th 9br 1678 to Margaret, 
daughter of Henry Miller of Cashore 
in the parish of Kirkentiloch where she 
was born and baptized Anno. 1644-5. 
But had been led into the same error 
of Quakerism by means of one of her 
brothers who had first embraced the 
same. My eldest daughter Anna was 
born at Lawres, the 4th of January, 
L679-80. 

We came to Shanks 4th 9br, 1680. 
M\ daughter Helen was born there the 
2nd of October, 1680. My third daugh- 
ter Margaret was born there the llth 
of May, 1683. We went to Leith for 
our voyage to America the 2nd of August 

1683, came aboard the ship the 10th 
day and next day at Aberdeen where 
we staved to the 28th. Made sight 
of Long Island the 30th 9br, but off 
again and discovered Cape May, 13th 
X br. Came within Sandy Hook the 
16th and ashore on Staten Island the 
19th. To Elizabethtown the 23rd and 
to Woodbridge the 10th January 1683-4. 

My daughter Margaret died the loth 
and buried next day at Amboy. We 
came to Amboy 25th June 168 1 and Kith 
of September several of them were 
seized with an Ague. We removed to 
the House in the field Amboy 13th, X br 

1684. I got the ague the 5th June 1685. 
My son John was born at Amboy 27th 
|ulv 1686. We came to Hortencie the 
26th 9 br 16S7. I got the fever the 8th 
of August KISS. My children went to 
school first near here, then the Lasses to 
Philadelphia. My daughter Anna was 
married to Capt. Jo'n Anderson the 7th 
X br 1701. My son John was baptized 
the 5th June 1702. My daughters 
Anna and Helen were baptized the 25th 
October 1702. 



1 first received the Sacrament of the 
body and blood of our Saviour Chris! 
in the Church of England 28th of March. 
My daughter Helen was married to 
John Bartow, Rector of West Chester 
the 17th 9br 1705. I got the Ague 
Fever the 6th 7br at New York 170N. 

Having finished two books of Mathe- 
mat. Compend, and just as I had 
finished the 3rd book on the Kith of 
Vpril 170H 1 received a letter of the 
death of my Grandson John Bartow, 
who died the 0th of this about 7 in the 
evening after 18 days sickness. 

July 21st, 17011 I set out for Canada 
thinking to take a draft of that country 
with Notandems of the soil and settle- 
ments. But the fleet not arriving 
alter I had made some observations 
I came home on Tuesday 1Mb Octobei 
17011. 

My son John was married to Mary 
Sands at Hempstead Long Island the 
17lh of December 1721. His wife was 
delivered of a woman child the 28th of 
November 1722 and she was baptized the 
22nd Febr'y 1722-3 and named Mary. 

My daughter Anna Anderson died 
July 6th at 2 o'clock in the morning 
172:i aged 43 years 5 mos. 12 days." 



In the above account we have omitted 
the records of the births and baptisms 
of his two daughters' numerous children, 
each entered in somewhat lengthy form 
in the original memorandum. Anna 
Reid, the eldest daughter, married Col. 
John Anderson, and had nine children, 
John, Margaret, Helen, James, Kenneth, 
Anna, Elizabeth, Jonathan and Isabelle. 

Helen Reid married Rev. John Bartow, 
and had Helen, John (died young), 
Thomas, Theophilus, Theodosius, John, 
Anthony and Basil. 

In an ancient graveyard at Topen- 
hamus, N. J., the following inscription 
was copied in 1879, "Here lies the body 
of John Reid who came from Scotland, 
his native country with his wife Margaret 
& three daughters to New Jersey the 
9th of dec. br Anno Dom. 1683. He 



THE R E A D K RECORD 



died the Kith of Nov. br Anno Dom. 
1723. Aged 67 years." His widow 
Margaret who died May 1 , 172S aged 84, 
and their daughter Anna and her hus- 
band are also buried here. For further 
data relating to this family, and to the 
descendants of Col. John Reid. only 
son of John and Margaret, see Bartow 
Genealogy. 



READE ANCESTRY OF WASHINGTON 

1. Andrew Reade, proprietor of 
the Manor of Faccombe and of Linken- 
holt, Hampshire, England, married Miss 
Cooke of Kent and had five suns and 
four daughters. His will dated Oct. 7, 
1619 was proved Oct. 21, 1623. 

2. Robert Reade, second son of 
above, was thrice married; his third 
wife was Mildred, daughter of Sir 
Thomas Windebanke by Frances Dy- 
moke, his wife. His will was dated 
Dec. 10, 1626. The fifth and youngest 
son of Robert and Mildred was 

3. Colonel George Reade, born at 
Linkenholt, died in Gloucester County, 
Virginia, in 1671. He came over to 
Virginia about 1637, was Secretary of 
State pro tempore 1640, Burgess for 
James City County 1049 and for Glouces- 
ter County 1656; was a member of 
the Council 1658-1671. His will was 
probated Nov. 20, 1671. By wife Eliza- 
beth Martian, he had four sons, Robert, 
Francis, Thomas, and Benjamin and a 
daughter 

4. Mildred Reade, who married 
Colonel Augustine Warner born July 
3, 1642, died June 19, 1681. He was 
Speaker of the House of Burgesses in 
1676 and 1677 and a member of the 
Council. Their daughter 

5. Mildred Warner married first, 
Lawrence Washington. After his death 
she took her children to England where 
she married George Gale. She died in 
England in 1701. Her second son, 

6. Augustine Washington, 1694- 
1743, married second, Mar. 6, 1731, 
Mary daughter of Colonel Joseph Ball 
and their eldest son was 



7. George Washington, born Feb. 
22, 1732. 

(See Genealogy of the Washington 
Family by H. O. Collins, 1900.) 



FAMILY OF WILLIAM OF WOBURN 
(Reade List, No. 4.) 

William Reade, b. 1587 in England. 
d. 1656 at Newcastle-on-Tyne, North- 
umberland; his wife Mabel, b. 1605 
in England, d. June 15, 1690, at Woburn, 
Mass. She m. (2) Nov. 21, 1660 Hkxry 
Somers Sr. of Woburn, who d. Nov. 
2, 167."). (For biographical sketch, see 
Reade Record No. V.) Children, all 
residents of Woburn, Mass. 

1. George 2 b. 1629 in England, 
d. Feb. 21, 1706 at Woburn; m. (1) 
Oct. 4, 1652 Elizabeth Jennisox of 
Watertown who d. Feb. 22, 1665 at 
Woburn; m. (2) Nov. 9, 1665 Hannah 
Rockwell who d. Apr. 16, 1724 at 
Woburn. 

2. Ralph- b. 1630 in England, d. 
Jan. 4, 1712 at Woburn; m. abt. 1654, 
M \rv Pierce, daughter of Anthony of 
Watertown; she d. Feb. 15, 1701 at 
Woburn. 

3. Justice 2 b. Jan. 1633, name on 
the passenger list of 1635 and no other 
record found. 

4. Abigail 2 bapt. Dec. 30, 163s, 
Dorchester, (probably several years old' 
at the time); m. Oct. 2, 1650 Francis 
Wyman. 

5. Israel 2 b. 1642 in Scituate, d. 
June 29, 1711 at Woburn; m. abt. 
1669, Mary Kendall, daughter of 
Francis; she d. Jan. 17, 1722 at Woburn. 

6. Sarah 2 , birth not found, d. Nov. 
1, 1681 at Woburn; m. Sept. 10, 1662 
Samuel Walker Jr., who d. Jan. 18, 
1701. at Woburn, "aged 61." 

7. Rebecca 2 bapt. Dec. 26, 1647 
Roxbury, d. 1734 at Woburn; m. Joseph 
Winn of Woburn. 

8. A child, referred to in the father's 
will but whose name is not found, d. 
before 1675. 

G. S S. 



T H K R E A D E K EC O R D 



Gbc IReaDc "Recorfc. 



Published by the 
Reade Historical and Genealogical Association. 




Officers elected October 30, 1913. 
President. 
\<i \ James Reed Hi '-.ion. 

Vice-Presidents. 
II : Warren A. Reed . Brockton. 

Philip Reade Boston. 

Edward F. Reed . Everett. 

John S C. Blanchard So. Weymouth. 
[oshua E. Crane Bridgev 

Edgar S. Reade . Ottawa. Ont. 

J I'm i.iiim. Ri vd N\\v York. N.Y. 

Treasurer. 

Hi nkv II. Reed So. Weymouth. 

Secretaries. 
Ch mi i s I Ki vd Brookline. 

\ ison H. Reed Wellesley Hills. 

Genealogist. 
s . Stewart ....Concord. 

Annual Meetings. 
Ten annual meetings of the Reade His 

alogical Association ha\; been held in 
Massachusetts, as follow; 
Taunton, July 14, 1904. 
Boston, October 12, 1905. 
South Weymouth, September 27. 1906. 
Wesl Bridgewater, October 17. 1907. 
Boston, October 28, 1908. 
Boston, October 28, 1909 
Lexington, October 28, 1910. 
South Weymouth. October 27. 1911. 
Burlington, October 16, 1912. 
Boston, October 30, 1913. 

YOU ARE INVITED TO JOIN. 
Remittances of membership fees should be 
sen! to Charles F. Read. Secretary R. H. & 
C. A., Old State House. Boston. Mass. 



RECENT DEATHS OF MEMBERS 

Mrs. Mary Clark Reed, wife of 
Henry B. Reed, for several years Treas- 
urer of the Association, died at her 
home in South Weymouth, Mass., on 
January 29, 1914. Mrs. Reed had been 
a member since its organization and was 
much interested in its objects. The 
Association has been the recipients 
of her hospitality on more than one 
occasion and she will be lung remembered 
by all who knew her. 

Miss Julia L. Reed died in Baltimore, 
on January 11, L914. She was a sister 
of the late John L. Reed, who is well 
remembered as the compiler of the 
genealogy entitled, "William Reade of 
Weymouth and his Descendants." 

David Farnum Read died in Bridge- 
port, Conn., April 30, 1914. He was a 
graduate of Yale University, class of 
1883, and was President of The Read 
Carpet Company and The I). M. Read 
Company of Bridgeport. He was much 
interested in The Reade Societj and its 
work and traced his ancestry from 
Thomas Read who settled at Salem 
Mass. in L636, whose grandson, Jona- 
than, removed to Smithfield, R. I., in 
1 7-1(1. 

Mr>. Susan R. Faxon, wife of Dr. 
W. 0. Faxon, died in Stoughton, Mass., 
on May L3, 1914. 

Mrs. Anna M. Hotchki>s, widow of 
the late Charles A. Hotchkiss, died in 
Bridgeport, Conn., on March 6, 1914. 

William B. Reed died in New York. 
N. V., on June 7, 1912. 

William B. Reed, Jr., son of the above 
named, died in New York, N. Y., on 
April 3, 1913. 



THE R E A D E RECORD 




JAMES PAULDING READ 

A Life Member and Vice Pres. (if the 
Reade Historical and Genealogical Asso- 
ciation, son of Dr. Joshua W. Read 
of Newark and a lineal descendant of 
Thomas Read of Sudbury. Mass., who 
came from the city of Colchester, 
Essex County, England and settled in 
Sudbury, Mass., in 1654. James Pauld- 
ing Read is connected with the Electric 
Bond and Share Co., 71 Broadway, 
New York, a member of the Zeta Psi 
Fraternity at Rutgers College 1910, 
received his engineering degree at Colum- 
bia University, 1906, a member of the 
New Jersey Society S. A. R. and of the 
New Jersey Historical Society, member 
of the Masonic Fraternity, a Knight 
Templar, etc. He married April 28th, 
last, Miss Julia Arnold DeWitt, a lady 
of distinguished ancestry, her father, 
Moses J. DeWitt, a lawyer of New 
York City, being a lineal descendant of 
"Fjerck Claessen DeWittvam Groot- 
holdt en Zunderlaudt and Barbara 
Audriessen Van Amsterdam, " married 
April 24, 1656. "Jerry DeWitt" moved 
up the Hudson River, near Kingston, 
became Magistrate of Ulster Co. and a 
prominent man in that section of the 
country. 



A READ PROBLEM 

By Rev. Henry Martin Dodd, A.M. of 
Clinton N. Y. 

My mother, Maria Wiser Read, born 
1817, was the daughter of a William 
Read who was one of a family that 
came to York State about 1790-1795 
from somewhere to the eastward and 
settled near the Mohawk River in 
Herkimer County, about 75 miles west 
of Albany and 20 miles east of Utica. 

The family consisted of Israel Read 
born 1769, Abner 1770, John, Polly 1775, 
William 1776, Wolcott 17X4, Lewi's 1788, 
and Nathaniel 1791. The parents of 
these children, it was said, were John 
(or William) Read and Alice Reckord. 
The latter died soon after the birth of 
her son Nathaniel, and William Read 
married second a German woman, one 
of the "Palatines" (or Mohawk Dutch) 
belonging in the region where he had 
settled. After many years, he and his 
second wife (who had no children) 
both died and were buried on the same 
day. In my desire to do something 
of permanent value for my mother's 
family, I conceived the plan of com- 
piling a Genealogy of my Read ances- 
tor and his descendants. The above 
is a synopsis of what 1 was able to 
make out from the traditions and 
records existing among us. Of course 
at first I tried to connect our Reads 
with the families mentioned in the 
Reed Genealogy of 1861, compiled by 
Jacob W. Reed. I found the following 
in his chapter on the Weymouth Reads 
and it had been copied verbation by 
John Lodovicus Reed in his Genealogy 
published in 1902; "William Reed 
[No. 323 in the later publication] born 
Jan. 4, 1744, married Mrs. Alice Richards 
Sept. 22, 1763;" and this was all the 
book contained about this family. The 
father of William [No. 323] was also 
a William Reed, who married Sarah 
Warren and had a large family most of 
whom removed from Middleboro, Mass., 
to the western part of that state. As 
I read and pondered the above para- 
graph, I began to wonder if this could 



THE KEAHE RECORD 



not be the ancestor I was looking for. 
A visit to Middleboro and a personal 
inspection of the town records dis- 
closed a chapter of blunders most 
extraordinary in the account given by 
J. W. Reed; (1) the maiden name of 
William's wife was not "Richards" 
but Richard (a common name in Mid- 
dleboro, then, ordinarily pronounced 
"Record," correctly spelt Rickard); 
(2) the "Mrs." was only a title of 
courtesy, then given by polite clerks 
to all brides whose marriages they 
entered on the records; (3) the year 
of her marriage was L768 (not 17<i:;. | 

I have been following up this William 
Read (No. 323) and through the pains- 
taking help of Mr. Alanson H. Reed, 
Secretary of The Reade Society, have 
ascertained that in 1782 William bought 
land in "Bullock's Grant." now Savoy, 
Mass. 

The Baptist Church there, was organi- 
zed in 17S6 and one of its original mem- 
bers was an Alice Read from Middle- 
boro. 

The U. S. Census, Heads of Families, 
for 1790 gives William's family as 1 
male over 16 years, 3 males under 16, 
and 2 females. 

In June 1702, William and Alice sold 
their land in Savoy, and I get no further 
trace of him in that quarter. 

I also encountered another set of 
blunders in the Dickerman Genealogy, 
which gives an account of the Nathaniel 
Read mentioned above. He is there 
stated to have been born in "Le Roy", 
Mass., and to have been the son of 
Record Read. ' Here certainly are two 
mistakes; there is no "Le Roy" in 
Mass., and never has been. It is easy 
to see how easy it is to write "Savoy" 
so it will look like "LeRoy." That he 
was called "Record" Read in his last 
days seems to be a fact but no evidence 
from any source proves that to have 
been his name. Lewis Read remembers 
that "his father's father was given a 
name not his" but how it all happened 
I do not know. Now I submit that my 
ancestors, William Read and Alice 
Record, were identical with the William 



[No. 323] and "Mrs. Alice Richards" 
of J. L. Reed's book. In the Read 
Genealogy which I have recently pub- 
lished, much circumstantial evidence 
on this point is given of an almost 
conclusive character. 



WILL OF RALPH REED OF WOBURN 

In the vault of the Woburn Public 
Library is a collection of ancient Reed 
papers of considerable genealogical value. 
Among them is this original will of 
Ralph- Reed, a copy of which appears 
below. This will was never proved and 
no record of Ralph's estate is to be found 
in the Middlesex Probate' Office. The 
paper has been damaged by mice and 
dampness, and the seal and names of 
the witnesses have been torn off. The 
words enclosed in the bracketts have 
been supplied. 

' I In the name] of God Amen |I 
Ralph Read of Wo]burne in the 
County of [Middlesex and P]rovince of 
the Masachusetts B[ay, being of sound 
a]nd disposing memory praised be god 
[for same, do make] this my last will 
and Testement in man[ner and form 
following that is to say first and prin- 
sopely I Resign my Soul into the mersi- 
full hands of Allmighty God my Creator 
and my Body I comit to the Earth 
whence it was Taken to be deasently 
buried by the discresion of my Executors 
heareafter named and as for my worly 
goods and estate the Lord hath lent me 
I dispose theareof as folows 

Imprimis I give and bequeath to my 
sone John Read, the sume of five 
shiling: I give to my sone Timothy 
Read the sume of five shilings: I 
give and bequeath to my Grandsone 
William Read the sume of five shilings: 
and all the Rest and Residu of my 
Kstate goods and Chatels not hearin 
before bequeathed After my death and 
funierall charges be payed : and After 
the desece of my deare and loveing wife 
Marey Read and her funierall charges 
be payed I doe give and bequeath unto 



THE R E A I ) E RECO k D 



my loveing sons Joseph Read and 
Daniell Read home I doe make 
sole execetorres of this my last will and 
Testement Revocking all other wills by 
me heare to forre made: 

In witness where of I have heareunto 
sel my hand and seal this twenth third 
day of Agust: 1692. 

Ralph Reed. 

Signed Seled and published in the presents 
of [names torn off]. 

The above is paper No. 6, File 21, 
Woburn Public Library. 

The signature at the end is apparently 
the only portion of the document written 
by the testator himself, the will itself 
being in another hand, a fact which 
may account for the different spelling 
of the surname. 

It should be borne in mind that the 
three older sons of Ralph had been mar- 
riul for some years when this will was 
made and doubtless received their por- 
tions of the estate before this time. 
Of these, William "dyed by a shott" 
Nov. 7, 1688, "his brother Tim: at 
unawars in ye Woods shot him in stedd 
of a dear;" he left a son William, born 
in Woburn Aug. 23, 1682, who is the 
"Grandsone" named in Ralph's will. 

The thanks of The Reade Society 
are due to Mr. Arthur G. Loring of 
Woburn for his courtesy in connection 
with this matter. 

Several of the other papers in this 
collection bear small seals, the central 
figure of which is apparently our old 
friend, the "griffin segreant." 

Ralph 2 and Mary (Pierce) Reed, 
it thus appears, had five sons who 
were doubtless all born in Woburn 
though the Town Records show the 
birth of but one of them. Viz; 

1. William 11 , birth not found, d. 
Nov. 7, 1688; by wife Elizabeth 
had William 1 , Mary and Elizabeth. 
His widow m. (2) John Cutler and d. 
Jan. 0. 1710 at Woburn. 

2. John : \ birth not found, d. Mar. 
9, 1733 at Woburn; m. (1) Mar. 21, 
1682 Elizabeth Holden who d. 1703; 
m. (2) Dec. 4, 1705 Abigail Baldwin, 
who survived him; children, John 4 , 



Ralph, Elizabeth, Stephen, Benja- 
min, Susanna, Henry, and Amos. 
3. Timothy 3 , b. Feb. 14, 1665, m. 



Dec. 



:', 



KiSS Martha Boyden; he- 



removed to Charlestown where he was 
taxed 1727-173S. Children,- Mar- 
tha 4 , Timothy, William, Benjamin, 
Jonathan, Elizabeth, and Mary, all 
born in Woburn. 

4. Joseph 3 , b. abt. 1070, d. Dec. 
20, 1741 at Woburn; m. abt. 1004 
Phebe Walker who d. Apr. 7, 1743; 
children, Phebe 4 , Susanna, Joseph, 
Joshua, Nathaniel, Susanna, and 
Abigail. 

5. Daniel 3 , b. abt. 1074, d. Dec. 
is, 1741 "aged 07," gravestone at 
Arlington; m. (1) Jan. 17, 1700 Sarah 
Johnson who d. 1703; m. (2) June 6, 
1704, Susanna Johnson. He removed 
to Charlestown where he was taxed 
1727-1742. Had three sons Daniel 4 , 
Seth and Samuel, the two younger by 
the second wife. 

G. S. S. 



THOMAS READ OF SALEM 
(Reade List No. 6.) 

The earliest mention found of this 
immigrant is on the Salem Town 
Records in a list of the landholders 
there, dated 1030, "Tho: Reade" having 
a 10 acre lot. Apr. 10, 1637, "Tho: 
Read was acknowledged an Inhabitant" 
by the local authorities, and a week later 
they "refused his request he mad for a 
little land to be changed by his X Acre 
Lott." 

It is likely he had married about the 
time of his settlement in Salem, for 
when the inhabitants were enumerated 
fur the division of the "marsh & meadow- 
lands " authorized Dec. 25, 1637, "Tho: 
Read" had but three in his family, 
which entitled him to three fourths of an 
acre. 

June 25, 103S, it was ordered that 
"Thorn. Reed shall haue halfe an acre 
of land lying by his other lot" and Jan. 
21 following, there was "graunted to 
Thomas Read 20 acres of land to be laved 
out by the towne. " 



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T H E K EA 1> E RECORD 



In December L643 "Thu: Read was a 
witness in the Salem Court against 
certain men who had put their cattle in 
the North Corn Fields and he made a 
complaint against Robert Tike for steal- 
ing wood from him. His first wife died, 
probably about L645, but no mention 
of her by name has yet been found on 
the local records. 

Thomas Read was nol a member of 
the Salem Church and for this reason 
was ineligible to become a "freeman" 
(or voter) or to hold any public office; 
this explains also why the names of his 
four older children fail to appear on the 
baptismal register. 

He married his second wife, whose 
name was Mary, probably about Hi Hi. 
and she was admitted to church membe] 
ship in 1(149. hence the names of the ten 
children she bore to Thomas Read are 
found on the Salem church records. 
Three of Mary's children died young, 
and her oldest boy, Aaron Read, was 
accidentally shot dead bj a neighbor's 
son while hunting when about 23 years 
of age. The only recorded transfer 
of any land by Thomas Read of Salem 
is dated Jan. 2, 1663-4 when, with the 
consent of his wife, he conveyed to 
Richard Richards fi acres of upland in the 
North Field; he signed this deed with 
"his marke" and is decribed therein as 
a "planter." He confirmed the sale Feb. 
11, 1666-7 and within two months of 
this acknowledgement. Thomas Read 
died, for the inventory of his estate is 
dated April .">, 1007. The real estate, 
comprising a house, 3">'-j acres of land 
and :, 4 an acre of salt marsh, was valued 
at £.">0. An important memorandum 
of the family, included in this docu- 
ment, reads as follow-. "Children by 
first wife :i sons & 1 daughter; second 
wife, 7 children, 2 sons, one about 20 
years and the other 4 years, and 5 
daughters aged 14, 17, 12, 10 and 1 ; •_> 
years." Thomas Read died intestate 
and Mary, his widow, brought in an 
inventory amounting to £70 7s. clear 
estate June 25, 1007. She was ap- 
pointed administratrix and was ordered 
to pay to the eleven children at age or 



marriage, 20s., the eldest to have 40s. 
She was not to make sale of any of the 
real estate without the advice of the 
Court or the Selectmen of Salem, and 
when she died the estate left was to lie 
equally divided. 

The widow Mary Read married in 
September, 1673 John Tompkins Sen. 
of Salem, a widower. He died June 23, 
1681. but she survived and was living 
Dec. 1 1, 1687, as shown by the petition 
of her step-son Abraham Read given 
below. 

The children of Thomas Read were 
probably all born in Salem, viz. 

1. Eldesi Son, whose name i- nol 
found, died, probably unmarried, after 
Dec. I I, 1687. 

2. Daughter, probably the Rebecca 
Read named in the Court Files in 1650. 
(A Rebecca Read married Joseph Park- 
hurst of Chelmsford in June 1656.) 

:;. Abraham 2 , second son, living ion.",, 
no evidence found that he married. 

4. Isaac 2 , who m. Mar. 10, 1 f '>?:> 
Joane Stone at Salem. He was a soldier 
in King Philip's War 1070 and d. 1710 
at Salem ; many descendants. 

By second wife, Mary. 

5. Aaron 2 b. abt. 1017, bapt. Mar. 
18, 1649, killed by accident 1070. 

0. Susanna 2 bapt. Sept. 23, 1649, 
m. Mar. 10, 1071 John Colburn of 
Chelmsford. 

7. John- bapt. June 15, 1651, d. 
Oct. 21, 1002. 

8. M \rv- bapt. Apr. 10, 10.",:;, m. 

(1) John Tompkins Nov. 20, 1693; m. 

(2) Daniel Rea. 

9. Elizabeth' 2 bapt. May \-i, L655, 
m. Samuel Stacey. 

10. Remember 2 bapt. Apr. 20, L657, 
m. Josiah White of Mavflower ancestry. 

11. Jacob' 2 b. Feb." 22. 1658-9, d. 
voung. 

12. Sarah 2 b. Mar. 1.",, 1660, d. Mar. 
1, 1002. 

^13. Jacob' 2 b. Aug. 7. 1662, d. shortly 
before April 8, 174."); m. Dec. 1693 
Elizabeth Green of Salem; ancestor of 
the Smithfield R. I. Reads. -■ 

I I. Sarah 2 b. Oct. 14, 100."). m. 
Jehosaphat Rogers. G. S. S. 



THE R E A D E RECORD 



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PETITION OF ABRAHAM READ 
(Son of Thomas of Salem.) 

"The Humble petition of Abraham 
Read unto the Hon'd Court now siting, 
Salem Dec. 14, 1687, Humbly sheweth 
that whereas my father, Thomas Read 
of the Towne of Salem Died Intestate 
main- years since leaving something 
considerable in housing & land as clear 
estate And the County Court held at 
Salem June 25, 1667 appointed my 
mother-in-law* Administratrix to sd 
Estate & in whose hand the land yet 
remains, And my Elder Brother as it is 
well known unto many is a man unto 
whom the soveraine Lord of all hath 
not Imparted such gifts whereby he is 
of any capacity or ability to manage 
the same; And being now in a deplorable 
condition in such want that he is almost 
ready to perish & whose condition calls 
aloud for speedy relief, do therefore 
humbly crave from your Honors that I, 
being the next heir & unto whom the 
undoubted right thereof doth nextly 
belong, that I may have the estate put 
into my hands to improve for his use 
whilst he lives, obliging & engaging to 
take such care of him as he may have a 
comfortable subsistence & may not be 
chargable unto the town or any other. 
Abraham Read." 
(Essex Court Files.) 

* In accordance with the usage of the 
time, he speaks of his step-mother as his 
"mother-in-law. " 

G. S. S. 



PETITION OF SAMUEL READ. 

"Woburnthel6. 10. Ki78. 
To the Honered Court now sitting in 
Charlestowne the 17th 10th 78 the peti- 
tion of Samuel Read of Woburne most 
humblye sheweth that I being imprest 
into the cuntrey serves to Naragansett & 
being in the swamp fright I was wounded 
by the enemy but god who orders all things 
according to the Counsell of his own will : 
so ordered that I was carried off by a cupple 
of soldiers: Though I was shott thorow 



the thigh and had my thigh bone broak 
in too:' carried to the head qarters alive: 
& from thenc sent to road Island & there 
remained under the docters hands about 
14 weeks very weak: and had severall 
peeces of boans cutt out of my thigh: one 
peece about 2 inches long: besides severall 
small slivers: but being like to dye I was 
brought to boston: where I remained one 
month under the hands of docter hawkins: 
and one month with docter Chickering of 
Charlestown: Still remaining weak: and 
was brought to my masters hous att cam- 
bridg: and lay under docter ffosters hands 
about three months: and many splinters 
of boans was gotten out of my thigh: at 
severall times: all this while: but by this 
time it pleased god that I had gained some 
strength: & my wound was prety well 
healed: so as I c'oold goe a letle ways with- 
out leading: but by the next Spring folow- 
ing It bread into a great sore caled a 
thlstlelow: and I being in extremety of 
pain fell into a fever: and was destracted 
for 7 dayes together: but after the sore 
brake and rami att lest a galand: I re- 
ceived some ease: att this time there was 
severall splinters of boans taken out: & 
with the blesing of god upon my master 
fosters indevers: It was healed up againe: 
though I never recovered my strength in 
it againe: nor I fear never shall: but am 
in paine if I travell upon it: and the slugg 
remaining in my thygh still: If I meet 
with a blow upon it: it is very painefull to 
me and I am in fears that it may break 
out againe: therefore my petetion to your 
honners is that this my petyfull case may 
be considered : and I should have said that 
for all this time I received no wadges unto 
this very daye: and six pounds I payed 
to the docters for my cure and for my diet : 
all this of my own pave: my humble re- 
quest theirfore is that your honners would 
be pleased to free me from training: I not 
being well able to travell: and becase if 
I meet with any blow: or crush upon my 
wound: it may be as bad as ever it was: 
so though much more mought be said in 
the case I am not willing to trouble your 
honers with more words than needs: I 
rest vour honers most humble supliant 
Samuell Read." 



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THE KEADE RECORD 



Copied from the original in the Middle- 
sex County Court Files at East Cambridge, 
package dated Oct. and Dec. 1678. 

A.H.R. 

The above Samuel Read was born in 
Woburn April 29, 1656, son of George- 
(William 1 of Woburn) and Elizabeth (Jen- 
nison) Read. He married June 19, 1(379 
Elizabeth Mousal and lived in Charles- 
town Mass., where for many years he was 
a physician; he died Jan. 30, 170S-9. For 
family record, see Wyman's Charlestown 
Vol. 2, pp. 802-3. His name appears as 
a member of Capt. Davenport's company 
December 1675, residence Cambridge, re- 
ported as "wounded." (Bodge's Soldiers 
in King Philip's War. p. 171) 

G. S. S. 



GENEALOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS 

Our Secretaries are not genealogists 
and often are not able to answer ques- 
tions about ancestral lines, asked in 
letters sent to them. These are given to 
Mr. George S. Stewart, the official gene- 
alogist of the Association, who has made 
a special study of the Read Family lines 
however name may be spelled. He will 
communicate with the inquirer and make 
arrangement for such investigation as 
may be satisfactory to both. Our mem- 
bers will receive good work at moderate 
charge. 



GEORGE S. STEWART, A B. 

Genealogist 

New England Families only 
20 years experience. Very moderate charges 
Search made when desired, of National. State, County, 
Town, and of military records to establish ancestral 
lines for entrance to patriotic societies. 

Address GEORGE S. STEWART. Concord, Mass. 



NEW LIFE MEMBERS 



Morse, Willard S. 
Read, Franklin F. 
Read, Georce W. 
Read, Hon. Joseph 
Read, Dr. Josnr \ W 
Reed, Dr. James II. 
Reed, John S. 



New York, X. V. 
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Boston. 



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Friend, Thaddeus E. Brookline, Mass, 
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Lambert, Mrs. William B. 

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Xead, Mrs. Daniel W. Reading. Pa 
Read, Alexander, Esq. Santa Fe, X M 
Read, Andrew J. . Boston. 

Read, Hon. Benjamin M. 

San I a Fe, N M. 
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Reed, Dr. Herbert A. Boston. 
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Reed, .Miss Lil i\\ Washington, D. C. 

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XLhc IReabe IRecorb. 

Number VII. BOSTON, MASS. 1914 

THE READE SOCIETY 



FOR GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH 

INCORPORATED 1914 



The Eleventh Annual Meeting of the READE SOCIETY, was held 
in the American House, Boston, on Thursday, October 22, 191-1. 

A reception was held at one o'clock, at which the Rev. James Reed, 
President, and his wife, received and welcomed the Company. 

Dinner was served at half-past one in the Venetian Room, after which a 
business meeting was held at which the President presided. He congratulated 
the Society upon its prosperity and spoke of the duty of everyone by personal 
effort to increase the membership. 

The Secretary made a report stating that in accordance with the instruc- 
tions of the last annual meeting a Charter of Incorporation under the name of 
the " Reade Society " had been obtained from the Commonwealth of Massa- 
chusetts which empowered the Society to hold real estate and to receive 
bequests. 

The Treasurer submitted his annual report showing the finances of the 
Society to be in a satisfactory condition. 

The reports being read and approved, the election of officers for the ensuing 
year was then held. 

The Secretary read a paper entitled, " James Read, the Blacksmith : The 
First Read in America." 

Miss Helen Leah Reed read a paper entitled " Perishable Paper, a New 
Invention." 

Miss J. Leland Clarke and Mr. James W. White favored the company with 
instrumental and vocal music. 

The Society then adjourned to the next annual meeting in October, 1915. 

ALANSON H. REED, 

Secretary. 

Boston, October 22, 1914. 



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JAMES READ, THE BLACKSMITH 
The First Read in America. 

It is natural that those interested in 
the Genealogy & History of I In- 
Read Family in America, should have 
some desire to know the name and 
doings of the first settler of the name, 
who crossed three thousand miles or 
more of turbulent ocean waters to 
seek his home in an unknown wilderness, 
inhabited by savage men and wild 
beasts. Fortunately the wish can be 
gratified to some small extent from 
the 'accounts printed and published in 
E igland at the time of the settlement 
of Jamestown and the Colony of Vir- 
ginia in the year 1097 — thirteen years 
before the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers 
in New England. 

All Europe had been excited by the 
discovery of the New World in I I'.).' 
and the later conquest of Peru and 
Mexico with their golden treasures. 
The spirit of adventure was rife,and gold, 
territory and trade, through a new and 
short route to tin East Indies was 
sought with eager interest. King James 
I of England gave a grant to Robert 
Earl of Salisbury and others "to plant 
and inhabit in Virginia and to incor- 
porate by the name of Treasurer and 
Company of Adventures and Planters 
of the City of London, for the First 
Colony in Virginia." This London 
Company like the Corporations of the 
present day. to raise funds to carry on 
its work sold shares to those of the 
general public who were willing to take 
chances of profits and dividends from 
its pro] >osed operations in the New World 
and held out promises of liberal grants 
of land and other benefits to those 
who would go in person and settle in 
the Virginia Colony they were establish- 
ing. 

The Company sent out three small 
ships which set sail from London the 
19th of December. L606, but by "un- 
prosperous winds were kept six weeks 
within sight of England." Going by 



way of the Canaries they arrived at the 
West Indies, and after many adventures, 
sailing from there "in search of Virginia. 
The Company was not a little discom- 
forted, seeing Marriners had three days 
passed their reckoning and found no 
land; so that Captaine Ratclilfe rather 
desired to beare up the helm to return for 
England, than to make further search, 
But God the guider of all good actions, 
forcing them by an extreame -tonne to 
hull [lie to] all night, did drive them by 
his providence to their desired port be- 
yond all their expectations: lor never 
any of them had scene that coast." 

Passing within the Virginia Capes in 
search of a suitable location for their 
proposed settlement, they proceeded up 
a noble river now known as the James, 
and finally, one account says, "the 
thirteenth day lot" May. 1607), we came 
to our seating place, * * * where our 
shippesdoe lie so neare the shoare that 
they are mored to the trees in six 
fathom of water. " 

Fortunately a list of the name- of 
most of these settlers, 105 in number, 
has been preserved and among them, that 
of James Read, the blacksmith. Also 
that of the redoubtable Capt. John 
Smith, so well known in the history of 
the Colony. 

J wn.s Read, the blacksmith, being the 
only one of his trade in this the first 
expedition we may be sure he proved 
a man of value in all the work that 
went on. The care anil repairing of 
arms and artillery which the colonists 
had with them and the manufacture of 
small iron articles for trade with the 
Indians we may imagine came within 
In- province. He is mentioned by name, 
only in a very few instances, but it 
is quite certain he saw all the happenings 
and played his part in the affairs of the 
Colony, the nature of which may be 
judged from the accounts preserved to 
us. some of wdaich are here related. 

The 14 May. 1607 upon the day of 
landing, it is said, "Now falleth every 
man to worke, the Councell [governing 
Officials] contrive the Fort, the rest cut 



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downe trees to make place to pitch their 
tents; some provide clapbord to relade 
the ships; sonic make gardens, sone nets, 
etc. The salvages often visited us 
kindly. The Presidents overweening 
jealousie would admit no exercise at 
amies, but the boughs of trees cast 
together in theformeofahalfemooneby, 
the extraordinary paines and diligence 
of Captaine Kendall. " 

Another account says: — 

"The first night of our landing about 
midnight [May 14, 1(507], there came some 
savages sayling close to our quarter. Pre- 
sently there was an alarm guven, upon 
that the savages ran away and we were 
[not] troubled any more by them that 
night. * * *[18 May, 1607], the Weror- 
wance [cheif] of Paspihae [the Indian 
district in which the Colonists had 
located] came himself to our quarter 
with one hundred savages which guarded 
him in a very war like manner with 
bowes and arrowes; thinking at that 
time to execute their villany. Paspihae 
made great signes to us to lay our armes 
away; but we would not trust him so 
far. * * * As the savages were in a throng 
in the Fort, one of them stole a hatchet 
from one of our company which spied 
him doing the deed; whereupon he took 
it from him by force and also strooke 
him over the arme. Presently another 
savage seeing that, came fiercely at our 
man with a wooden sword, thinking to 
beat out his braines. The Werorance 
of Paspiha saw us take to ourarmes[and] 
went suddenly away with all his company 
in great anger.'' 

A party of three or four Colonists 
walking in the surrounding forrest relate, 
" wee traced along some foure miles, all the 
way wee went, having the pleasantest 
[honey] suckles, the ground all flowing 
over with flowers of sundry collours and 
kindes, as though it had beene in an) 
garden or orchard in England. There 
be many strawberries and other fruits 
unknowne. Wee saw the woods full ol 
Cedar and Cypress trees and other trees 
which issues out sweet gummes like to 
Balsam." [20 May. 1607], * * * The 



Werrowance [chief] of Paspiha sent fortie 
of his men with a deere to our quarter 
but they came more in villanie than 
any love they bare us. They faine 
would have layne in our Fort all night 
but we would not suffer them lor bare 
of their treachery. One of our gentle- 
men having a target which hee trusted in, 
t hi nking it would beare a slight shot, he set 
it up against a tree, willing one of the 
savages to shoot; who tooke from his 
backe an arrow- of an elle long. Drew in 
strongly in his bowe, shoots the target 
a foote thorow or better: which was 
strange being that a pistol could not 
pierce it. Wee seeing the force of his 
bowe afterwards set him up a Steele 
target; he shot againe and burst his 
arrow all to pieces. He presently 
pulled out another arrow and bit it in 
his teeth and seemed to bee in great rage. 
Their bowes are made of tough Ffasell, 
their strings of leather, their arrowes of 
canes or Hasell, headed with very sharp 
stones, and are made artificially like a 
broad arrow; other some of their arrows 
are headed with the ends of deeres 
homes, and feathered very artificially. " 

The Colonist soon found that to de- 
fend themselves, a fort of strength was 
needed and the set about building it. 

A party of some twenty-five men were 
sent out to explore the upper part of the 
river, and in their absence, it is related 
that the 22 May, 1607, "there came 
above 2C0 of Hum [Indians! with their 
Kyng and gave a very furious assault 
to our Fort, endangering their over- 
throwe had not the shippes ordinance 
daunted them; They came up almost 
into the Ffort, shot through the tents 
and appeared in this skirmish (which 
indured hott about an hower) a very 
valiant people; they hurt us 11 men 
(whereof one dyed after) and killed a 
boy. yet perceived the)- not this hurt in 
us.' We killed Dyvrs of them, but one 
wee sawe them tugg off on their backs, 
and how many hurt we knowe not. \ 
lit tie after they made a huge noyse in the 
woorls which our men surmised was at 
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of the ConseU that stood in front wire 
hurt in Mayntayning the Furl, and our 
President, Master Wynckfield, (who 
shewed himselfe a valiant gentleman) 
had one shott cleane through his beard, 
yet scaped hurte. " 

Capt. John Smith, who was absent at 
the time with the exploring part) (ol 
which James Read the blacksmith was 
not a member) says in his account of 
this affair: * * * "The first we heard was 
that 400 Indians * * * had assaulted the 
Fort and surprised it, and had not God 
pond all their expectations) by meanes 
of the shippes (at whom the) shot [the 
Indians] with their ordinances and 
muskets) they had entered the Fort with 
our own men, which were then busied 
in setting corne, their armes being then 
in drie fats, and few ready (for use) but 
certain gentlemen * * * (that had) their 
nun. in which conflict most of the 
Counsel was hurt, a buy slaine in the 
Pinnas (one of the ships) and thirteene 
or fourteene more hurt. With all speed 
we palisadoed our fort [surround :d 
it with a stockade of logs set close to 
geth i > ii: 14 or 15 feet in h :ighth, 
the en Is set in the ground & cross 
ties binding the logs together]. 

V ithi c a i >unt of one present says: 
"But had God not blessed the dis- 
covi ilorers] otherwise th in those 

at the Fort there had then beeneanend 
of that plantation. For at the Fort 
when they arrived the next day [27th 
May, 1607] they found 17 men hurt and 
a boy slaine by the salvages. And hid 
itnot chanced a cross barre shot from the 
ship stroke down a bough from a tre< 
amongst them [the Indians! that caused 
them to retire, our men had all bun 
slaine; being securlyallat worke and their 
armsin drie fats. Thereupon the Presi- 
dent [of the Colony, Edward .Maria 
Wingfield] was contented the Fort 
should be palisadoed, the ordinance 
mounted, his men armed and exercised; 
for many were the assaults and Am- 
buscadoes of the salvages; and our men 
by their disorderly stragling were often 
hurt, when the savages by the nimble- 



nesseof their heeles well escaped. What 
toile wee had, with so small a power to 
guard our workmen adaies, watch at 
night, resist our enimies and effect our 
businesse, to relade the ships, cut down 
trees, and prepare the ground to plant 
our corne, etc." 

James Read, the blacksmith, certainly 
had apart in this affair, and it would 
be most interesting if we could hear 
hi- story of it. 

Sunday, 30, -May 1607, the [ndians 
"came lurking in the thickets and long 
>e and a gentleman, one Eustai e 
Clovell, unarmed stragling without the 
Ffort [they] shot ii arrowes into him, 
where with he came running into the 
Fort crying "Arme,Arme," they stycking 
still. He lyeed 8 dayes and dyed. The 
salvages stayed not but run away." 

[June 15, 1607.] It i- noted that "we 
had built and finished our Fort which 
was triangle wise; having three Bul- 
warks [one] at every corner, like a halfe 
mooneand foure or five pieces of artilerie 
mounted in them [and thus] we had 
made ourselves sufficiently strong for 
these savages. " 

But James Read, the blacksmith, was 
oon io see ol her e\ ents oi equal danger 
and importance [22 June, 1607]. "Mun- 
day, the two and twentieth of June 
in the morning Captaine Newport, in 
the Admiral |the flag --hip] departed from 
James Port for England." What fol- 
lowed is related by one of the Colonists. 
'Captaine NTewp irf being gone * * * [for] 
England, leaving us (one hundred and 
foure persons) verie bare andscantieof 
victualls; further-more in warres and in 
danger of the savages, we hoped after 
[expected] a supply [of provisions and 
men, etc.] which Captaine Newport 
promised [to bring back] within twentie 
weekes." An epidemic of sickness and 
starvation soon began, of which it is 
related. 

"Our men were destroyed with cruel 
diseases as swellings, Flixes, Burning 
Fevers and by Warres: and some 
departed suddenly; but for the most 
part they died of mere famine. " 



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There were never Englishmen left 
in a foreigne country in such miserie 
as we were in this new discovered Vir- 
ginia. We watched every three nights, 
lying on the bare cold ground what 
weather so ever came [and] warded all 
the next day; which brought our irui 
to bee most feeble wretches. Our food 
was but a small can of Barlie sod [den] 
in water to five men a day. Our 
drinke, cold water, taken out of the river; 
which was at afloud, verie salt; at a low- 
tide full of slime and tilth, which was 
the destruction of many of our men. 
Thus we lived for the" space of the 
months [August, 1607 to sth of January 
1608] in the miserable distresse not hav- 
ing five able men to man our Bulwarke's 
[or fortiforcations] upon an}- occasion. 
If it had not pleased G< d to have put 
a terrour in the savages hearts, we 
had all perished by those wild and 
cruell Pagans, being in that weake state 
as we were; our men night and day 
groaning in every corner of the Fort, 
most pittiful to heare. If there were any 
conscience in men it would make their 
hearts to bleed to hear the pitiful! mur- 
murings and outcries of our sick men 
without relief. Every night and day 
for the space of six weekes, seme depart- 
ing out of the world, many times three 
or foure in a night; in the morning their 
bodies trailed out of their cabines like 
dogges, to be buried. In this sort I did 
see the mortality of divers of our peo- 
ple." 

[10 Sept., 1607]. "About the tenth 
of September there was about -16 of our 
men dead, at which time Captain [then 
President] Wingfield having ordered 
the affaires in such sort that he was 
generally hated of all. * * * \\ith one 
consent he was deposed * * * and Captain 
Ratcliffe * * * was elected." * * * 

As yet we had no houses to cover us, 
our tents were rotten, and our eal bins 
worse than nought; Our best c. rrrrcdi- 
tie was yron which we made into little 
chissels [for trade with the Indians.] * * * 
At this time were most of our chieU-t 
men either sicke or discontented, the 



rest being in such dispaire. as they would 
rather starve and rot with idle] 
than be persuaded to do anything for 
their owne releife without restraint" 
[compulsion). Bickerings, intrigues and 
quarrels kept the little colony in con- 
stant trouble. But Captair.e John Smith 
"by his cwne example, g< od words and 
faire promises, set si me to mow, others to 
bind thatch, some to build houses, 
others to thatch them; himself alwai* 
bearing the greatest taske lor his owne 
share; so that in a short time he pro- 
vided most of them with lodgings 
neglecting any for himself. " This done 
he set out to explore the country and trade 
| with the Indians for provisions. Upon 
his return to the Fort, it is related that, 
"Having thus by God's assistance 
gotten geed store of corne [the Colonist 
at this time numbering about 65 in all 1 
notwithstanding, seme lad ,-pirits, not 
content with God's providence, still 
grew mutinous; in so much that our 
President [Ratcliffe] having occasion 
to chide the smith, [James Read, the 
blacksmith] for his misdemeanour, he 
not only gave him bad language, but 
also offered to strike him with some of 
his tooles. For which rebellious act, 
the smith was by a jury condemned to be 
hanged, but being uppon the ladder [at 
the gallows], continuing very obstinate 
as hoping upon a rescue, when he saw- 
no other way but death with him he 
became penitent and declared a danger- 
ous conspiracy for which Captaixt: Kj \- 
dall, as principal, was by a jury con- 
demned and shot to death." 

Concerning this affair, another account 
says: 

"Wingfield [the deposed President, 
then a prisioner in the Pinace] and 
[Captain, Kendall [deposed from the 
Council, who then bad his liberty but 
might not carry arms! living iii d 
grace (seeing all things at randome in 
the absence of [Captain John] Smith, 
the companies dislike of their President 
[Patcliffel weakness, and their small 
love to [Captain] ATarim- never ending 
sickness, [a member of the Council 



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strengthened themselves with the sailors 
and other confederates, to regaine their 
former credit and authority, or at least 
such means aboard the Pinas, (being 
fitted to saile as Smith had appointed 
for trade) to alter her course and to go 
for England, Smith unexpectedly re- 
turning L J Nov., 1 (.07 ) had the plot 
discovered to him. .Much trouble he 
had to prevent it. till with store of 
fankon halls (falcon balls) and musket 
shot, he forced them (to) stay or sinke 
in the river. Which action [or attempt 
to leave] cosl the life of Cap] \im Ken- 
dall." 

[Wingfield's account of this says] 
"The daie of the President [Ratcliffe] 
did lie at J VMES R.E \i>. tin Smythe. The 
smythe stroake him againe. For this he 
was condemned to be hanged; but, 
before he was turned off the latter, he 
desired to speak with the President in 
private to whome he accused Mastee 
Kendall of a Mutiny and so escaped 
himself. What indictment Master Re- 
corder [Captain Archer] framed against 
thesmyth, 1 knowenot; but 1 knout' it is 
familiar for the President, Counsellors, 
and other officers to beate men at their 
pleasures. One lyeth sick till death, 
another walketh lame, the third cryeth 
out of all his boanes; which mvseres 
they dm- lake upon their consciences 
to come to them by this their almes of 
beating. Wear this whipping, lawing, 
beating and hanging in Virginia, knowne 
in England, I fear it would drive 
many well affecte 1 myndes from this 
honorable action of Virginia." 

li will he noted that James Read, 
Shr blacksmith was condemned by jury 
for striking the President of the Com- 
pany, which was a very serious matter, 
as Authority in those days represented 
Royalty, and offences against it were 
punished with the utmost severity. 
It would seem therefore that he was 
knowing to the intended mutiny, and 
refusing to give information in regard 
to it, in an altercation with the Presi- 
dent, blows were exchanged, for which 



Read being condemned and upon the 
[adder at the gallows, seeing no other 
hope of escape, "he became penitent 
and revealed what he knew and thus 
saved his life. That he was soon after 
received into good fellowship by being 
chosen as one of Captain John Smiths 
companions in the exploration of the 
great Chesapeake Pay would seem to 
indicate that Read's own part in the 
mutiny, if any, was not considered a 
very serious matter. 

June 2nd, 1608. Capt. John Smith 
left the Fort at Jamestown to explore the 
then unknown waters of the Chesa- 
peake Hay, an inland arm of the ocean 
some 200 miles in length into which 
from the West emptied the James 
River on which the Fort was situated, 
and four other great rivers which were 
discovered in the ol the exploration. 
His party consisted of six "gentlemen," 
lour soldiers, j whs Read, the black- 
smith. Richard Keale, fishmonger, 
and Jonas Profit, lisher, "these being 
in an open barge of two lunnes burden, " 
a boat not larger than a common 
yawl. Space forbids an account of 
their exciting adventures with Indians, 
tempests and storms, in which their 
sails were blown into talters, and their 
boat so filled with the raging water 
that only by constant bailing could it 
be l<p: afloat. But fortune and good 
courage brought them safely through 
it all. As they journed from shore to 
-hore .Hid place to place, they gave 
l In name-- of those in the expedition to 
the various hills, shores, capes, etc.. 
and among them that of James Read, 
///< blacksmith, to what they called, 
"Reade's Poynt," in the Acomack 
River, where they landed, and which is 
shown UDon Captain John Smith's 
map of Virginia, appended to the work 
he rmblished after his return to England. 

The expedition returned to the Fort 
July 21st, [Kins]. 

The next item concerning James 
Read, the blacksmith, comes in the 
; account of Captain John Smith's ex- 
pedition to Pamunkee, the seat of the 



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Great Indian Chief or King Powhatan. 
The 29 December, Kids. It is stated 
that, "The President whom no persua- 
sions could persuade to starve, being 
invited by Powhatan to come unto; 
and if he would send but men to build 
him a house, give him a gryndstone, 
fiftie swords, some peeces [firearms] a 
cock and a hen with much copper 
and beads he would load his ship with 
come." The 2! )th of December, 1608, 
Captain Smith * * * set forth with the 
pinnace, two barges and fortie six men 
which were only such as voluntarily 
offered themselves for this journey, 
which by reason of Mr. Scuvaners 
[former] ill success was censured very 
desperate, they all knowing Smith would 
not return emptie, if it [come] were to 
be had; howsoever it caused many 
of those he had appointed to find 
excuses to stay behinde. " 

James Read, the blacksmith and five 
others whose names are given, "four 
Dutch men and Rich and salvage were 
sent by land before to build the house 
for Powhatan against our Arrival. " The 
Pinnace and Barges proceeded down 
the James River "next night being 
lodged at Kecoughtan, " [where Hampton 
is now located or on Hampton Roads] 
where "six or seavan dayes the extreme 
wind, rayne, frost and snow caused us to 
keep Christmas among the savages." 
[1608]. * * * 

Continuing the journey "at Kiskiack, 
the frost and contrary winds forced us 
three or foure dayes also (to suppresse the 
insolency of those proud salvages) to 
quarter in their houses, yet guard our 
barge and cause them to give us what we 
wanted. * * * However, Captain Smith 
overcame all obstacles and having se- 
cured a supply of provisions returned 
to Fort Tames, the Chronicler stating, 
"We did leave him [Pohatan] Edward 
Brynton to kill him foule and the Dutch- 
men to finish his house," from which 
we may infer that James Read, the 
blacksmith and his overland campanion 
workers also returned to Fort James. 
It is to be regreted we have no account 



of the incidents of their trip or what 
they did personally while at Pamunky. 

The last information we get in regard 
to him is in the petition of his widow, 
Isabell Read, in the year 1621, so that 
it is probable he died not long before 
that time, having lived to aid in founding 
Jamestown & the Virginia Colony, 
the first permanent English settlement 
in North America, explored the greal 
Chesapeake Bay, suffered all the hard- 
ships of pioneer life, passed through 
strange and exciting experiences, saw 
the primitive life of the then owners of 
a vast continent of which he and his 
companions were the van guard of a 
new race in America, destined to de- 
prive and despoil them. Can we wonder 
that the native Indian resisted with his 
utmost though unavailing force? 

But all that likely had little concern 
for James Read, the blacksmith. Far 
more was the barter for furs and pelts 
and the growing of tobaco which he 
could send back to England and sell 
for money. It is evident from his 
widow's petition that he left no >ons to 
carry his name down to posterity. 



At a Court held for Virginia, the loth 
of March, 1621. 
p. (UN. * * * 

"The petition of Isabell Read beinge 
taken into consideration, the Court hath 
ordered that shee shall repaire to Cap- 
tainelo. Martin to require his annsweare, 
touchinge his promise of satisfaction 
for her goods that he hath acknowledged 
came to his hands and which he hath 
since alienated and sold unto others 
as shee made to appeare; and touchinge 
her other request for the house and 100 
acres of land which James Read her 
husband deceased in Virginia enjoyed 
in respect of ye adventure of his person 
thither and died seized of them, the 
Court hath confirmed the same unto her 
daughter Ioane, according to her desire 
being the next heire unto her deceased 
father." 



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President. 
i Iames Reed Boston. 

Vice-Presidents 

Henry B. Reed So. Weymouth. 

J.Paulding Read . .New York, N.Y. 

Treasurer. 
Charles I. Read Brookline. 

Secretary. 
Alanson II. Reed. VVellesley Hills. 

Genealogist. 
Georgi S Stewari ■ Concord. 

Annual Meetings. 
Eleven annual meetings of the Reade Society 
have been held in Massachusetts as follows : — 
Taunton, July 14, 1904. 
r -ton, < ictober 12, 1905. 
South Weymouth, September 27, 1906. 
West Bridgewater, October 17, 1907. 
Boston, October 28, 1908. 
Boston, October 28, 1909. 
Lexington, October 28, 1910. 
South Weymouth, October 27, 1911. 
Burlington, October 16, 1912. 
Boston, October 30, 1913. 
Boston, October 22, 1914. 

YOU ARE INVITED TO JOIN. 

Remittances of membership fees (one dollar 
per year) should be sent to Charles F. Read, 
Treasurer, Old State House, Boston, Mass. 



FAMILY RECORD 

copied from the Bible of Abner Reed 
of West Granby, Conn., now in the 
possession of his great granddaughter, 
.Mrs. R. T. Cross, Twinsburg, Ohio. 

"Abner Reed was born February 22nd, 
1755. 

Mary Reed was born February 1st 
1762. 

Lucinda Reed was born June L2, 1783. 

Justin Reed was born October 1, 1784. 

A -"it was bom January 1st. 17s<i 
and died 4th. 

Chester Reed was born Sept. 25, 1787. 

Lyman Reed was born June 5th, 1 789. 

Lothrop Reed was born March 30, 
1791. 

Permelia Reed was born Dec. 28, 
1792. 

A daughter was born Sept. 1st, 1 7'. 14 
and died oth. 

Sylvester Reed was horn Sept. HI, 
1795. 

Shalor Reed was born August :;i-t, 
1707. 

Harriet Reed was born .March 28th, 
17! i! i. 

Forrest Reed was horn May 9th, 1801. 

\ .on was horn Sept. 15, L803 

Abner Reed died July the II. 1822, 
aged 07 years. 

Mary Reed died May 25, 1832, aged 
70 years, 3 months and 4 day-." 



A REED FAMILY OF WALDOBORO, ME. 

"Oct. 26, 1 7711. Jacob Reed, last 
from Broad Bay" (now Waldoboro, 
Me.) "came to town" (i. e. Boston) "in 
a sloop with Captain Sampson 14 days 
ago; his wife named Elizabeth; their 
children's names are, Mickel, John, 
David, Daniel, Elizabeth, Mary, Freder- 
ick, all last from Broad Bay. They 
live now in a house of Mr. Jonathan 
Gillbarts in Long Lane, etc." (Suffolk 
Court Files, Vol. 518, p. 119, No. 
89,902.) 

This Jacoh Reed was doubtless the 
ancestor of George Reed, a well known 



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Boston constable of a century ago and 
called by Jacob W. Reed in his " History 
of the Reed Family" (Chapter XXIII, 
p. 496) "the most distinguished rogue- 
catcher that ever lived in New England. " 
This family is said to have been of 
German origin and as many of the early 
settlers of Waldoboro are known to 
have been Germans, there may be 
some truth in the tradition. Jacob 
probably returned to Waldoboro as the 
U. S. Census for 1790 shows a Jacob 
Reed living there, having two females 
in his family: also, -'.Michel Reed," 
with two males over 16, two males 
umler lti. and eight females. 

A. H. R. 



A READ PROBLEM SOLVED 

Rev. Henry Martyn Dodd, A. M., Clinton, 
N. Y. 

In Reade Record, No. VI, the problem 
will be found stated. Was Wm. Read 
(323) i J. L. Reed book) the same as 
the "Ancestor" in my "Read Genea- 
logies?" I am happy to say I have 
solved the problem and proved my 
conjecture right. It will be found in 
"Supplement No. 1, Read Genealogies," 
just out. 

We trace back to William Read and 
Avis of Weymouth, 1651 or before. 
The line is" William (1) James CM 
William (3), William (4), WiJliam (.3), 
who is (323) in T. L. Reed's Book. This 
William Read (323) of Middleboro, 
Mass., born January 4, 1744, married 
Sept. 22, 1768 (nol Sept. 28, 1763) Miss 
Allis Richard b. Sept. 27, 17o0, (not 
Mrs. Alice Richards). She was daughter 
of Samuel and Zerviah Richard, (not 
Richards, i Richard is pronounced Rick- 
ard, or Record. 

This William Read' (323) by a deed 
dated March 20. 17S2, for £30 (30 
pounds) bought lot 43 in Bullocks 
Grant (now Savoy, Mass.), 100 acres. 
This deed was from Abiel Haskins and 
Elizabeth his wife and was executed 



in Bristol Co., (not far from Middle- 
boro) April 8, L782, before Jesse Bullock 
with Elijah Haskins and Henry Haskins 
as witnesses. It was recorded in Berk- 
shire Co., February 12, 1783. It was 
located in the Housatonic Mountain 
region of Western, Mass. 

This same lot was conveyed June 
27th, 1702 by William Read, yeoman 
and Alse his wife (who signed with her 
mark) for 30 pounds to Nathaniel 
Carpenter, Jr., cordwainer. Witnesses, 
Nathaniel Carpenter and Cyril Car- 
penter. Ack Feb. 5, 1783 and rec. 
Apr. 16, 1703. This shows that William 
Read 5 and wife Alice, lived about ten 
years in Savoy. She was an original 
member of the Baptist Church of Savoy 
by letter from the Baptist Church of 
Middleboro. 

Our ancestor who settled in New 
York, coming from Mass., was also 
named William and his wife was Alice 
Record. They had ten children, young- 
est born June 7th, 1791 in "LeRoy," 
Mass., according to the Dickerman 
genealogy, but no place can be found 
ever so known in Mass. 



WIFE ADVERTISED 

Whereas, my wife Mrs. Bridget 
McDallogh, is again walked away with 
herself and left me with live small 
children and her poor blind mother, 
and left nobody else to take care of 
house and home, and I hear, has taken up 
with Tim Guigan, the lame tiddler, 
(he same that was put in the stocks last 
Easter, for stealing Barney Moody's 
game cock. This is to give notice, that 
I will not pay for bite or sup on her 
account to man or mortal and that she 
had better never show the marks of her 
ten toes near my house again. 

Patrick McDallogh. 

"P.S. Tim had better keep out of 
my sight." 

(Portland Gazette, June 9th, 1816.) 



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THE R E A D E RECORD 



WILL OF THOMAS READE OF 
SUDBURY 

(Reade List No. 20.) 

Thesk may certifie to all persons 
whom soever; that I, Thomas Reed, 
Sen. of Sudbury in the County of Mid- 
lessdex, in the Province of the Massa- 
chusetts Bay in New England Being 
at this Present time well in my under- 
standing, though weak in body upon 
the account of Illness, I am Laboring 
under, and from whence being sensible 
of My great last change; Doe make 
constitute and appoint this My Last 
Will and Testament disannulling all 
other Will or Wills Testament or Testa- 
ments by me acted made done or 
performed heretofore, and this only 
to be of force and power. 

Witness, In the first place, I commit 
my Spirit unto My Glorious Redeemer, 
that through the Riches of Grace, it 
may live with him forever; and in the 
next place my body unto the dust to 
have a decent burial: And further as 
touching my worldly estate which God 
hath Blest me with (my debts and 
funeral charges being payed) My mind 
and will is: 

In the first place, that my beloved 
wife ArRABELLA Kiid be well and 
comfortably maintained out of it, dur- 
ing her life, unless she marry again; 
Alsoe I give and bequeath, unto my only 
son Thomas Reed, the moyety or one 
halfe of my meadow known and called 
by the name of Moresas Meadow, to 
be his forever. And my great Bible 
and Anotations. Allsoe I give and be- 
queath to my cousen, *John Bacon, 
of Watertown, four pounds, to be payed 
two years after my decease. Allsoe I 
give and bequeath to the youngest 
son of my above named Thomas Eourty 
shillings when he comes of age. Allsoe 
I give and bequeath to the rest of my 
saved Son's children, twenty shillings, 
each child to be payed three years 
after my decease. As for the rest and 
whole of all my estate, as housing 
Lands, Orchards fields, Meadows, Wo< ids, 



Chattal, moveables, etc., I give and 
bequeath them unto my beloved grand- 
son, Thomas Reed, to him and his 
Heirs forever; and this to my full satis- 
faction, is my Last Will and Testament; 
so I declare constitute and appoint 
my above said beloved grand-son, 
Thomas Reed, sole Executor of this 
my Last Will and Testament. 

Made this 9th day of September, 1701. 
Thomas Reade, 
| Seal] 
Signed, Sealed, Delivered in presence 
of us, 

J WII s Sill K\l \\ 

Samueli How. 
Kdmi mi Docker. 

Superadded. The interlining line 
15, concerning the gift of his great 
Bible, and brodats Annotations to his 
Son was declared as his will and mind 
before signing, sealing and delivery: 
as wee the witnesses Attest: 

( linlestowne, October lith, 1701. By 
the Hon. James Russell, Esq., Mr. 
James Sherman, Sam'l Howa and 
Edmund Bouker, the witnesses sub- 
scribed personally appearing made oath, 
thai they were prsonally present and 
saw the subscriber, Titos. Read, 
Deced. sign and seal and heard him 
publish declare the above written, 
to be his lasl Will and Testament, 
and that when he did so he was of a 
disposing mind. 

J. A. Russell. 
(Reg. Prob. Middx. Co. Vol. ) 



WILL OF THOMAS READ OF 
COLCHESTER, ESSEX CO., ENG.~" 

Thomas Read 1 bapt. St. Nicholas 
parish, Colchester, Essex Co.. England, 
Oct. 19, 1627, is first noted in New- 
England, on the Town Record of Sud- 
bury, Mass., May 28, 1655, when it was 
voted that he should "be put out of 
the last rate levyed for the meeting 
house." 



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11 



He mar. (1) Katharine 



ab. 1628 and died 26 Sept., 1077. 

They had so far as known only one 
son, Thomas 2 , b. ab. 1649, who mar. 
May 30, 1677 Mary Goodrich, dau. 
of John of Weathersfield, Conn., and 
died ab. 1730. 

Mar. (2) March 7th, 1077, Mary 

Wood, b. d. . Wid. of Michael 

of Concord. No issue. 

Mar. (3) Dec. 29, 1689. Wid. Arabela 
Thong, (i.e. Tong-Tongue) b. 1040, d. 
April 29, 1717. No issue. 

In her will she gave her negro maid, 
Frank, her freedom and all the personal 
estate. 

Thomas Read, Senr. lived on the 
West Side of Sudbury River on land 
purchased from his Kinsman, Pastor 
Edmund Browne in 10.".."), and was the 
first settler in the hamlet known as 
Lanham. He died September 13, 1701. 

"Cousen John Bacon of Watertown, " 
was a son of Daniel Bacon and his wife, 
(Mary Read) sister to Thomas Read, 
Senr.' of Sudbury. It is through the 
entailment of lands upon Mary and her 
children, in accordance with the will 
of her Father Thomas in England, 
that the .English ancestry of Thomas 
of Sudbury is established. 

In the" name of God, Amen. 1. 
Thomas Read of Colchester, in the 
County of Essex, Carpenter, * * * 
make and ordaine this my last Will and 
Testament. ***** 

First and Principally, I commend 
my soule unto the hands of God my 
creator that gave itt, and as concerning 
those worldly goods wch it hath pleased 
God to bestow on mee, I give be- 
queath the same in manner and forme 
following: 

First. I give the house in which I 
now live in the parish of Alsaints in 
Colchester to *Thomas Read, my sunne. 
now liveing in new England in America. 
To hold to him and the heirs of his 
bodv forever if he lives comes 
over unto England to enjoy itt. And 



in case he shall not bee living to come 
over to enjoye it then my will and 
mynd is that the same shall bee sold by 
my Executors to the best advantage 
that may bee. And the moneyes thereof 
ariseing to he cairfully conveyed over 
to him to be frugally laved out there in 
new England to purchase land or 
an Annuity for him and his wile for 
life. And " after their decease to the 
use of his children and their heires. 
And in case he shall not now lie alive 
or have noe child or children to enjoye 
my said house then I give the same to 
be sold to the best advantage and the 
money thereof ariseing to lie equally 
distributed amongst my children. More 
I give to my said sonne, Thomas Read, 
the somme of seaventy pounds to be paid 
him by my Executors within twelve 
months after my decease. 

Item. I give unto my sonne-in-law, 
*Daniel Bacon, now living in new 
England in America and Mary, his 
wife, my daughter, the somme of three 
hundred' and twenty pounds to be 
carefully laid out in new England to 
purchase land or an Annuity to her 
my said daughter for her life and after 
her decease to the use of all her children, 
that shall then be living at her decease 
to be Equally devided betweene them, 
parte and parte alike or in case my said 
sonne-in-lawe, Daniel Bacon, his wile 
and children, shall happen to come over 
to live in England then I will and my 
mynd is that the somme of three hundred 
twenty pounds shall soe he deposed 
of and layd out in lands here in Eng- 
land to the use aforesaid. Alsoe I give 
to all my grand children the children of 
the said Daniel Bacon and Mary. 
my daughter, five pounds a peece to be 
paid to them which are of age within 
six months after my decease. And to 
them which are sonnes now under age 
when they shall be of age of one and 
twenty y'eares or dayes of marriage. 
And my will mind is that if Thomas 
Read, my sonne shall come over to live 
in England to enjoye his said Legacie and 
shall sell his estate there and shall pave 



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TIIK READE R EC OR D 



the same to my sonne-in-law, the said 
Daniel Bacon, to be layd out as the 
legacy above to him is herein given. 
Then I doe appoint my Executors herein 
to pay to my said sonne or his assignes 
here in England the somme which he shall 
have so paid to my sonne-in-law the said 
Daniel Bacon in new England for 
the use aforesaid the same not exceeding 
the somme of one hundred pounds to be 
laid out and disposed of here for the 
benefit of him and his child or children. 

Iilm. I give and bequeath unto 
my daughter Rachel HocKER,the somme 
of two hundred and seaventy pounds 
to be laid out upon a purchase of land 
to be settled upon Joseph Hmkii; and 
Rachel, his wife for theirl ives. * H 
And after their decease to the children 
of the body of -aid Rachel. * * * * 

1 1 1 \i. 1 give bequeath all my 
household goods, aslynnen woolen, 
brasse, bedding, Pewter and all other 
implements of household whatsoever 
to my children. THOMAS READ, [SAAC 
Ri \n and Rachel Read, to be equally 
shared and parted amongsl them. 

Item. Whereas my brother, George 
Read hath receaved of my monies in 
London twelve pounds which he should 
have paid to mee, my will and mind is 
and I doe hereby give to my said brother 
the said twelve pounds. * * * * 

Item. I give to Thomas Read, my 
brother George Read's sonne, the somme 



of five pounds 



* h= * * 



at the age of 



one and twenty yeares. * * * * 

Item. All other my lands and tene- 
ments, mortgages to me forfeited or 
not forfieted and stocke not before 
bequeathed I give and bequeath the 
same to my sonne, Isaacke Read. * 

\\i> I do Hereby nominate and 
appoint my said sonne. Isaac and John 
Clarke of Buttolphes parish, gardiner 
to be Executor of this my last will and 
testament. * * * * "^ 

And Lastly, I give unto the poore of 
Al saints parish in Colchester forty 
shillings, to the poore of the parish of 
Saint J^mes five pounds, to the poore of 
the parish of Buttolphes in Colchester 



iivepounds and to the poore of the parish 
of St. Giles in Colchester five pounds 
and to the poore of Saint Nicholas in 
Colchester three pounds. * * * 

In Witness Whereof, I have sett my 
hand and sett my seale; this thirteenth 
day of July in the veare of our Lord, 
1665. * * * 
The Mark x of Thomas Read. 

Sealed, published and delivered in 
the presence of us, * * * * 

Thomas Lucas 
John Waterhouse. 

A. Codicil to be as parte of my within 
written will and so to bee taken. 

.Mi MORANDTJM. 1 doe further give 
and bequeath unto the within names, 
Joseph Hocker and Rachel, his wife, 
that my house with the appurtenances at 
Saint John, Greene in Colchester in the 
parish of Saint Giles in Colchester. * * * 

Witness my hand and sealc the day 
and yeare within written. * * * * 
Thomas Read. 

Sealed ;: and so delivered in 

presence of me. 

Thom \s Li i vs. 

Probate made at London, March 
3rd, llili."i-ti, by Isaac Read and John 
Clarke, Executors. Recorded Somerset 
House, Book Mico p. 51. Will copied 
by the late, well known New England 
Genealogist, Mr. Henry F. Waters, for 
Alanson H. Reed'-', a lineal descendant. 

* The Parish Register of St. Nicholas, 
Colchester, has the following entry: 

"1627. Thomas, son of Thomas 
Rj \nand Rachel, his wyfe was baptized 
the l!Uh day of October." 

"The Register of Admissions to the 
Roval Grammar School of Colchester, 
Ess'ex Co., England," 1637 - 1740. 
"Thomas Reade, eldest son of Thomas 
Reade Caqjenter (habrilignari) Born 
in St. Nicholas, Colchester. In his 
12th year. Admitted March 16.30-0." 
No additional information is had, con- 
cerning him until his name appears 
upon the Town Record of Sudbury, 
Mass., in 1655 as an inhabitant of that 
place. 



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* Daniel Bacon' 2 , second son of 
Michael' of Dedham, Mass., was in 
Charlestown in 1639 and subscribed 
December 18th, L640 to the Town 
Orders for the then projected Town of 
Woburn to which place he removed. 

The 20th, Sept., 1661. A deed from 
Thomas Read of Sudbury-Carpenter 
to Mathew Gibbs of Sudbury-Hus- 
bandman, is witnessed by Daniel Bacon 
and William Pearse. Middsx. Reg. D. 
Vol. XIi: p. li. 

The 29th of November, 1670. A 
deed from Michael Bacon, Junor, of 
Woburn to Daniel Bacon, Senior, of 
New Cambridge, is witnessed by Thomas 
Read and Thomas Walker. Midd. Reg. 
D. Vol. 4. p. 179. 

The 10th of January, Hi7s, Daniel 
Bacon, then living in Cambridge, in a 
deed to his son Jacob Bacon, recites, 
"know ye that I Daniel Bacon of Cam- 
bridge, in observance of the last will and 
Testament of Thomas Read, late of 
Colchester in the countie of Essex, in 
Old England, deceased, with refference 
unto my children by my wife, 1 Mary 
Bacon, daughter of the sd Thomas 
Read, have given * * * unto my son, 
Jacob Bacon, one parcel] * * * of land 
* * * within the limmitts of Water- 
towne, * * * conteyning * * * five and 
a half acres. * * * January 10, 107S. 

Middx. Reg. D. Vol. 10.' p. 579. 



WILL OF PHILIP READE OF WEY- 
MOUTH, 1676. 

(Reade List, No. 10.) 

I, Philip Reade of Weymouth, being 
weake of body but of sound memory. 
& disposing mind doe make this my last 
will and testament as followeth, that is 
to say: I having already given unto my 
son Philip Reade upon his marriage all 
my divisions of common lands in the 
towne of Waymouth, that is one greate 
lot containing twelve acres more or 
less & two common lotts one in the 
upper and the other in the lower division 



of comon lotts together with halfe a 
swampe lott and halfe an acre & twenty 
rod of fresh meadow & having also 
given him live or six acres of arable land 
lying without my pasture fence in the 
f'cild called the Range and having also 
given unto John Vineing, my son-in- 
law, halfe an acre and twenty rod 
more or less of fresh meadow & halfe 
a swampe lott. I doe now confirme unto 
them both all these my former gift 
unto them by this my last will. This being 
thus disposed of I doe give and bequeathe 
all the rest of my land in Waymouth 
undisposed of together with my house 
& barne unto Mary, my wife to be 
fully & wholly unto hir use during 
her natural life and after my wife's 
decease, my will is, and I doe give & 
bequeath my house and one acre & 
halfe of land adjoining unto to my house, 
of which my orchard is to be part, 
unto my son, Philip; all the rest of my 
land, that is to say all the rest of my 
land in King Oake Hill adjoining to 
my house, together with my pasture 
as' now it lyeth in the Range I doe give 
and bequeathe after my wives, decease 
unto my son-in-law, John Vineing; 
further I doe give and bequeathe all my 
household stuffe, cattle and other estate 
in moveables unto my wife to be dis- 
posed of as she shall please. I doe con- 
stitute my faithful beloved wife, ye sole 
Executrix" of this my last will. And 
finally Dloe appoint my beloved brother, 
Thomas Dyar and my loveing friend 
Richard Porter, my overseers, to see 
this my last will and testamt performed 
according to the true intent and meaneing 
thereof. 1 doe by this my last will make 
voideall other wills heretofore made by 
me and declare this to Lie my last will 
& for the confirmation hereof 1 have 
set my hand and seale this loth day of 
December in ye yeare of or Lord, 10, I. 

The marke of Philip Reade & his 
seale. 



Signed, sealed in the presence 
Samltel Torki:\ 
Thomas Dvik 



:e ol 



14 



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"Will proved 5th of May, 167(>, by 
Samuel Torrev and Deacon Thomas 
Dyer. 

(Reg. Prob. Sufi. Co. Vol. 6-120.) 

INVENTORY OF PHILIP READS 
ESTATE, WEYMOUTH. 
"An Inventory of ye estate of Philip 
Ki i D, deceased, February 29, 1675." 

lb£ 
Imprimis wearing apparel] 02.10 00 

A dwelling house, barn and orchard 30.00.00 
Acres of land to ye house adjoyning 20 nil ill) 
6 acres of land in ye Reng field 35 i It > . I HI 

A great lot of 12 acres in 00 00 

A common lot in ye 1st division, 6 acres 03 00 mi 
One lot in ye 2nd division, 18 acres 1 14. 1 in nn 
Bed and Clothes 07.00.00 

One acre & halfe of fresh meadow (I s - (in no 

One Swamp lot, 2 acres 1 1 1 I 

One iron pot and one iron kittle 01 00 I N I 

One sword and one barrell of a gun 00 in 00 
One cow, 4 lb., one sheep, S£ 

2 pigs, 1 lb. OS ns nn 

A skillet basnn& other household stuff 00.10.00 
lb' bushlls of barley 03 04 00 

Pork 00 15 00 

Debts due 01.14.00 

Old lumber 00 Is no 



135 09 00 
This extate was apprised by us May 
4, 1676. 

Steven F. French. 

John Vineing brought in this In- 
ventory declaring ye Widd; or Executrix 
to be such wch was accepted by ye 
worship Jno. Leveret, Esq., and Edw. 
Ting, Esq., Assistt. this 5th day of May, 
1676. As attests ffree. Grace Bardall, 
Recordr. 

(Reg. Prob. Sufi. Co. Vol. 5-335.) 



REUNION OF ABNER REED'S 
DESCENDANTS 

Contributed by Rev. R. T. Cross, Twins- 
burg, Ohio. 

The 34th annual reunion of those 
descendants of Abner Reed living in 
Ohio was held Wednesday, June 10, 
1914, at the residence of Rev. and Mrs. 
R. T. Cross, in Twinsburg, Summit 
Co., Ohio. Mrs. Cross is a great- 
granddaughter of Abner Reed (1754- 
1822) who lived at West Granby, 



Conn. His sons, Lyman, Chester, Syl- 
vester, Lothrop and Justin emigrated 
to Portage County, Ohio about 1840. 

Their descendants who participated 
in the present reunion, had not hitherto 
known the ancestry of Abner Reed, 
whose family Bible, owned b) Mrs. 
Cross, was on exhibition at the meeting. 
Mr. John Gould of Aurora Station is 
President of the family organization, 
his wile, Mrs. Gould i- secretary and 
Mrs. Frank Pearce of Mantua, Ohio, 
is historian. About fifty descendants 
were present. 

After a bounteous dinner, served by 
the ladies of the Congregational Church, 
Rev. R. T. Cross presented to the 
assembly a number of brand new yet 
very old ancestors, extending back 
of Abner and Mary (Spring) Reed for 
three generations. He had secured their 
names through the help of Miss Ellen 
A. Reed of New Haven, Conn., a great- 
granddaughter of Abner Reed of Granby, 
through his son Shalor and grandson 
Charles 

Some account (if the earlier genera- 
tions was found in the Reade Record. 
Nos. IV and Y. The line of Abner 
i- a- follows: 

(1) Dr. Philip Reade of Concord, 
Mass. (1624-1696), who married Abi- 
gail Rice. 

Dr. Jacob Read of Simsbury, 
Conn. (1673-1709i, who married Eliza- 
beth Law. 

(3) John Read of Simsburv and 
Granby. (1708-1792), who married 
Hannah Holcomb. 

I Abner Reed of West Granby, 
Conn. (1754-1822), who married Mary 
Spring. 

Note. The change in the form of 
the surname, characteristic of the times, 
will be noted in the above pedigree. 
Many autographs of Dr. Philip Reade 
are to be found in the ancient records 
of Massachusetts which show beyond 
question his own usage in the matter. 
His descendants of the present day, 
so far as known, spell the name 'Reed.' 

G. S. S. 



THE.READE RECOK D 



IS 



A REVOLUTIONARY PENSIONER 
Stephen Reed of Weathersfield, Vt. 

Stephen Reed of Weathersfield, Wind- 
sor Co., Vt., applied for a pension Aug. 
6, 1832, and his claim was allowed 
He stated that he was born March 26, 
1754 at Westford, Middlesex Co., Mass., 
and was a resident there at the time of 
his enlistment; he was present at the 
battles of Concord and Lexington, (April 
19, 1775), and at Bunker Hill (June 17, 
177.")). He enlisted (1) as a "minute- 
man"' in April, 1775; (2) later in the 
same month, as private in Capt. Joshua 
Parker's Co., Col. William Prescott's 
regt., for 8 months; (3) in Jul}-, 177(i, 
in Capt. Joshua Parker's Co.. Col. 
Jonathan Reed's regt. for 5 months; 
(4) in May, 177s, under Capt. Woods 
of the same regiment. (See his appli- 
cation for pension, Bureau of Pensions, 
Washington, D. C.) 



COMMENT 



The birth of this soldier is found on 
the Westford records at the exact 
date given above. He was the eldest 
child of Lieut. Thomas 4 (Lieut. 
Samuel 3 , John 2 , Thomas 1 of Chelms- 
ford, Reade List No 35) and Susanna 
(Dutton) Read. 

It is worthy of note that he altered 
the form of his surname from Read to 
Reed, probably after his marriage. 
The " intention of marriage " of " Stephen 
Read and Mary Derumple of Groton" 
was published at Westford, April 8, 
1770. The births of their children, 
probably taken from the family Bible, 
were "received on record" at Weathers- 
field, \'t., March 29, L816; to these 
have been added a number of marriages 
from the Weathersfield Records, viz: 

Children of Stephe.v axd Mary 
(Dalrymple) Reed. 

1. "Polly," 6 b. Westford, Mass . 
September 14, 1780; m. Dec. 1, 1803. 
Jonathan Thompson of Weathersfield. 



Mass., 
LS04, 



2. Susanna 6 , b. Westford, Mass., 
August 31, 1781; m. Dec. 5, 1806, Asia 
Hamlin of Westford. 

:!. "Patty 6 " b. Westford, 
January 31, 1783; m. Dec. ii, 
Clark Preston of Weathersfield. 

4. Stephen 6 , jr., b. Groton. Mass., 
Dec. 31, 1785; m. Apr. 27, 1809, Susan 
Spencer of Weathersfield. 

5. William 6 , b. Ludlow, Vt., Nov. 

28, 1787. 

6. Silas 6 , b. Ludlow, Vt., Feb. 7, 
1789; m. Nov. 22, ISIS, Polly Whit- 
more of Weathersfield. 

7. jESSE 6 ,b.Ludlow,Vt.,July 1 1 ,1791. 
s. S \k ail, b. Weathersfield, Vt., June 

2d, 1793. 

9. John 6 , b. Weathersfield, Vt., July 
2, 17H5. 

10. James 6 , b. Weathersfield, Vt., Au- 
30, 1797; m. Dec. 6, 1823, Susan New- 
hall of Weathersfield. 

11. Nathan 6 , b. Weathersfield, Vt., 
July 20, 17! til. 

12. Eli 6 , b. Weathersfield, \'t., June 

29, 1801; d. July 27, 1801. 

It will be noted that this family record 
affords accurate information of the 
residence of Stephen Reed after marriage 
at Westford till 1783, at Groton in 1785, 
Ludlow, Vt., 1787-1791, and Weathers- 
field, Vt., after 1793. The Census of 
Pensioners taken in 1840 finds him still 
living at Weathersfield, aged 86 years 

Hodgman's "History of Westford, 
Mass." confirms and supplements the 
statements in the application for pen- 
sion: "Stephen Read" was a private 
in Capt. Oliver Bates' Co., Col. James 
Prescott's regt., at the Concord Fight, 
April 19, 1775 (p. 108); a member of 
Capt. Joshua Parker's Co.. Col. William 
Prescott's regt., at the Battle of Bunker 
Hill. This company was stationed in 
the redoubt (p. 112.) Lieut. Thomas 4 
Read, father of Stephen, was a recog 
nized patriot and served on the Com- 
mittee to hire soldiers in 1781, being 
chosen "head" of "Class 1 " of the town 
of Westford. the inhabitants having 



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been divided into classes in order to 
procure their proportion of soldiers for 
the Continental Army. Mary Dairy - 
mple was born in Groton, Mass., October 
17, 1759, daughter of William and Eliza- 
beth (Blood) Dalrymple; her father also 
served in the Revolution from Groton. 

G. S. S. 



A BIG CLAP OF THUNDER 
"Set the Globe a Trembling." 

There was a remarkable thunder 
storm last winter. Fitz William Meet- 
ing house was burned by lightning & 
several other buildings. The ground 
was frozen very deep; the litening 
when it struck the earth it sat the 
globe a trembling. I saw a gentleman 



from bark shire County who said that 
he was in his bed when there was one 
clap of thunder, exceeded everything 
that ever he heard he said he thought 
the arch angel of the triumph had sounded 
the grand trimendus blast & the hour of 
transmigration had come. He lay with 
trembling expectation to hear the second 
blast when this old world should pass 
away to the right & to the left like the 
opening of curtains & naked soul 
hang hovering in the entry space be- 
twix paradice & hell, the throne be 
rixd & judgement be given & to 
wind up the mystery of fate a new & 
an immortal world s] iring from the womb 
of eternity & possess the place of the 
former. " 

(Extract from letter of Joshua Read 6 
of Western, now Warren, Mass., date 
July 22, 1817. 



NEW MEMBERS 



LIFE MEMBERS 

Mrs. Catherine R. Warren 

Cambridge, Mass. 



Wellington Wells 



Mlist'MI. 



Transferred from Annual to 
Life Membership 

Mrs. Ella R. Goodrich Hartford, Conn. 
Miss Ellen A. Reed New Haven, Conn. 

Robert C, Reed Boston. 



ANNUAL MEMBERS 

Mrs. Ella R. Andrews New York, N. Y. 

Mrs. Antoinette R. Preston 

Norwich, Conn. 

Clarence F. Real Wellsville, N.Y. 

Mis^ Margaret H. Read New York, N. Y. 

J. H. READE, Jr. New York, N. Y- 

Floyd O. Reed, M.I). Yonkers, N. Y. 

George M. Reed Keene, N. H. 

Horatio M. Reed New York, N. Y. 

William A. Reed Bristol Center. N. Y. 

Allan C. Sargent Graniteville, Mass. 



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tTbe IReabe IRecorb. 

Number VIII. BOSTON. MASS. 1915. 

THE READE SOCIETY 

FOR GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH 



The Twelfth Annual Meeting of the Reade Society was held 
in the American House, Boston, on Thursday, October 27, 19 15. 

A reception was held at one o'clock, at which members and 
guests exchanged greetings. Dinner was served at half-past one. 
about fifty being seated at the table, and General Philip Reade, 
U. S. A. (Retired), presided in the absence of Rev. James Reed, the 
President. 

At the conclusion of the dinner, William Wallace Lunt, Esquire, 
President of the Society of 1812 in the Commonwealth of Massa- 
chusetts, read a paper entitled " Captain Samuel Chester Reid, and 
his Fight in the General Armstrong." At the conclusion of his 
paper, the thanks of the Society were tendered to Mr. Lunt. 

At a business session, which followed, the reports of the Sec- 
retary and Treasurer were read and accepted. 

Rev. James Reed, President of the Society, having declined to 
serve another term, it was 

Voted to send him by the Secretary, a letter as a tribute of 
esteem for his service to the Society. 

The election of officers was held, and those named on the 
eighth page were elected to serve for the ensuing year. 

Miss Helen Leah Read read an original poem entitled " The 
Man and the Name ; " and the company was entertained by songs 
and instrumental music by Miss J. Leland Clarke, Mrs. J. Austin 
Furfey, and a violinist. The exercises having been concluded by 
singing a verse of "America,'' the Society dispersed until the next 
annual meeting, in October, 19 16. 

ALANSON H. REED, 
Boston, October 27, 1915. Secretary. 



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CAPT. SAMUEL CHESTER REID'S FIGHT IN 
THE "GENERAL ARMSTRONG" 



]',■, WILLIAM WALLACE LUNT 



At the outbreak of the second war 

with Great Britain in L812, the United 
States were sadly in need of ships, 
hut being handicapped by financial 
difficulties, and the time being precious, 
it was deemed advisable to build 
smaller though speedier vessels, those 
that could sail up to a fleet of British 
for the chase. Thus it was that Yankee 
Privateers of the Gen. Armstrong type 
proved veritable hornet- for the British 
Navy to contend with. 

The Gen. Armstrong [In command 
of Capt. Samuel Chester Reid] was 
perhaps one of the best of her class, 
every known wrinkle of the craftsman 
being incorporated in her building, and 
when read) to sail on her first cruise, 
she was pronounced a near perfect 
as possible. 

In fact everything about her, from 
the carved and gilded figure-head, past 
the rakish, slanting masts to the slender 
stern, indicated the privateer. As she 
stood into the roadstead of Fayal [a 
Portuguese island in the Azores,] late 
in the afternoon of September 26, 
1814, black-hulled and white-sparred, 
carrying an amazing spread of snowy 
canvas, she made a picture that brought 
a grunt of approval even from the surly 
A/orian pilot. Hardly had the red'- 
white-and-blue ensign showing her nat- 
ionality fluttered to her peak before 
a harbor skiff bearing the American 
consul, Dabney, shot out from shore; 
for these were troublous tines on the 
Atlantic, and letters from the States were 
few and far between. Rounding her 
stern, he read, with a thrill of pride, 
"GENERAL ARMSTRONG, NEW 
YORK." 

The very name stood for romance, 
valor, hair-breadth escape. For of all 
the two-hundred-odd privateers that 
put out from American ports at the 



outbreak of the War of 1812 to prey on 

British commerce, none had won so 
high a place in the popular imagination 
as this trim-built, black-hulled schooner. 
Built for speed, and carrying a spread 
of canvas at which most skippers 
would have stood aghast, she was the 
fastest and best handled privateer afloat, 
and had always been able to show her 
heels to the enemy on the rare occasions 
when the superior range of her seven 
guns had failed to pound him into 
submission. Her list of captures had 
made rich men of her owners, and had 
caused Lloyd's to raise the insurance 
on a vessel merely crossing the English 
Channel to thirteen guineas in the 
hundred. 

The story of her desperate encounter 
off the mouth of the Surinam River with 
the British -loop of war COQUETTE, 
with four times her weight in guns, 
had tired tin- popular imagination 
as had few other events of the war. 
Although her commander, Samuel 
Chester Reid, was not long past his 
thirtieth birthday, no more skilful navi- 
gator or daring lighter ever trod a 
quarter-deck, and his crew of ninety 
men Down-East fishermen, old man- 
o'-war's men, Creole privateersmen who 
had fought under Lafitte, reckless 
adventurers of every sort and kind- 
would have warmed the heart of bluff 
old John Paul Jones himself. 

Just as dusk was falling the officer on 
watch reported a sail in the offing, and 
Reid and the consul, hurrying on deck, 
made out the British brig CARNATION, 
of eighteen guns, with two other war- 
vessels in her wake: the thirtv-eight- 
gun frigate ROTA, and the PLANTA- 
GENET, of seventy-four. Now, as 
the privateer lay in the innermost 
harbor, where a dead calm prevailed, 
while the three British ships were fast 



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approaching before the brisk breeze 
which was blowing outside, Reid, who 
knew the line which marks foolhardiness 
from courage appreciating that the 
chances of his being able to hoist anchor, 
make sail, and get out of the harbor 
before the British squadron arrived 
to block the entrance were almost 
intintesimal, decided to stay where he 
was and trust to the neutrality of the 
port, a decision that was confirmed by 
the assurances of Consul Dabney that 
the British would not dare to attack 
a vessel lying in a friendly harbor. 
But therein the consul was mistaken, 
for throughout the entire duration of 
the war the British as cynically dis- 
regarded the observance of international 
law and the rights of neutrals as though 
they did not exist. 

_ The CARNATION, learning the iden- 
tity of the American vessel from the 
pilot, hauled close into the harbor, not 
letting go her anchor until she was 
within pistol-shot of the GENERAL 
ARMSTRONG. Instantly a string of 
signal-flags fluttered from her mast, 
and the message was promptly acknow- 
ledged by her approaching consorts, 
which thereupon proceeded to stand 
off and on across the mouth of the harbor, 
thus barring any chance of the privateer 
making her escape. So great was the 
commotion which ensued on the CAR- 
NATION'S deck that Reid, becoming 
suspicious of the Knglishman's good 
faith, warped his ship under the very 
guns of the Portuguese fort. 

About eight o'clock just as dark had 
fallen, Captain Reid saw four boats 
slip silently from the shadow of the 
CARNATION and pull toward him 
with muffled oars. If anything more 
were needed to convince him of their 
hostile intentions, the moon at that 
moment appeared from behind a cloud 
and was reflected by the scores of cut- 
lasses and musket-barrels in all four of 
the approaching boat's. As they came 
within hailing distance Reid swung 
himself into the shrouds. 

"Boats there!" he shouted, making a 
trumpet of his hands. "Come no near- 



er! For your own safety I warn you!" 

At his hail the boats halted as though 
in indecision, and their commanders 
held a whispered consultation. Then, 
apparantly deciding to take the risk, and 
hoping, no doubt, to catch the privateer 
unprepared, they gave the order: "Give 
way all!" The oars caught the water 
together, and the four boats, loaded to 
the gunwales with sailors and marines, 
came racing on. 

"Let 'em have it, boys!" roared 
Reid, and at the word a stream of flame 
leaped from the dark side of the priva- 
; teer and a torrent of grape swept the 
crowded boats, almost annihilating one 
of the crews, and sending the others, 
crippled and bleeding, back to the 
shelter of their ship. 

By this time the moon had fully 
risen, and showed the heights over- 
looking the harbor to be black with 
spectators, among whom were the Por- 
tuguese governor and his staff; but 
the castle, either from weakness or 
fear, showed no signs of resenting the 
outrageous breach of neutrality to which 
the port had been subjected. Angered 
and chagrined at their repulse, the 
British now threw all caution aside. 
The long-boats and gigs of all three >hip> 
were lowered, and into them were 
crowded nearly, four hundred men, armed 
with muskets, pistols, and cutlasses. 
Reid, seeing that an attack was to be 
made in force, proceeded to warp his 
vessel still closer inshore, mooring her 
stem and stern within a few roads of 
the castle. Moving two of the nine- 
pounders across the deck, and cutting 
ports for them in the bulwarks, he 
brought five guns, in addition to his 
famous "long torn," to bear on the 
enemy. With cannon double-shotted, 
boarding-nets triced up. and decks 
cleared for action, the crew of the 
GENERAL ARMSTRONG lay down 
beside their guns to await the British 
attack. 

It was not long in coming, just as 
the bells of the old Portuguese cathedral 
boomed twelve, a dozen boats loaded to 
the water's edge with sailors and marine-, 



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whose burnished weapons were like so 
many mirrors under the rays of the 
moon, swung around a promontory 
behind which they had been forming 
and, with measured stroke of oars, came 
sweeping down upon the lone privateer. 
The decks of the GENERAL ARM- 
STRONG were black and silent, but 
round each gun clustered its crew of half- 
naked gunners, and behind the bul- 
warks knelt a line of cool, grim riflemen, 
eyes sighting clown their barrels, cheeks 
pressed close against the butts. Up 
and down behind his men paced Reid, 
the skipper, cool as a winter's morning. 

"Hold your fire until I give the word, 
boys." he cautioned quietly. "Wait 
till they get within range, and then 
teach 'em better manners." 

Nearer and nearer came the shadowy 
line nl boats, the oars rising and falling 
with the faultless rhythm which marks 
the veteran man-o'-war's man. On they 
came, and now the waiting Americans 
could make out the gilt-lettered hat- 
bands of the blue jackets and the 
white cross-belts and the brass buttons 
on the tunics of the marines. A moment 
more and those on the ARMSTRONG'S 
deck could see, beneath the shadow of 
the leather shakoes, the tense, white 
faces of the British boarders. 

"Now, boys!" roared Captain Reid; 
"let 'em have it for the honor of the 
flag!" and from the side of the privateer 
leaped a blast of flame and lead, cannon 
and musketry crashing in chorus. Never 
were men taken more completely by 
surprise than were those British sailors, 
for the}- had expected that Reid, reiving 
on the neutrality of the port, would be 
quite unprepared to resist them. But, 
though the American fire had caused 
terrible havoc in the crowded boats, 
with the bull-dog courage for which 
the British sailors were justly famous, 
they kept indomitably on. "Give way! 
Give way all!" screamed the boy- 
coxswains, and in the face of a withering 
rifle-fire the sailors, recovering from 
their momentary panic, bent grimly to 
their oars. Through a perfect hail- 
storm of lead, right up to the side of 



the privateer, they swept. Six boats 
made fast to her quarter and six more 
to her bow. "Boarders up and away!" 
bellowed the officers, hacking desperate- 
ly at the nettings with their swords, 
and firing their pistols point-blank into 
the faces they saw above them. The 
ARMSTRONG'S gunners, unable to 
depress the muzzles of their guns 
enough so that they could be' brought 
to bear, lifted the solid shot and dropped 
them from the rail into the British boats, 
mangling their crews and crashing 
through their bottoms. From the shelter 
of the bulwarks the American riflemen 
fired and loaded and tired again, while 
the negro cook and his assistant played 
their part in the defence by pouring 
kilties of boiling water over the British 
who were attempting to scramble up 
the sides, sending them back into their 
boats again scalded and groaning with 
pain. 

There has been no fiercer struggle in 
all the annals of the sea. The Yankee 
gunners, some of them gray-haired men 
who had seen service with John Paul 
Jones to the BON HOMME RICHARD, 
changed from cannon-balls to grape, 
and from grape to bags of bullets, SO 
that by the time the British boats drew 
alongside they were little more than 
floating shambles. The dark waters 
of the harbor were lighted up by spurts 
ol flame from muskets and cannon; 
the high, shrill yell of the Yankee pri- 
vateersmen rose above the deep-throat- 
ed hurrahs of the English sailors; the 
air was filled with the shouts and oaths of 
the combatants, the shrieks and groans 
of the wounded, the incessant trampling 
of struggling men upon the decks, the 
splash of dead and injured falling 
overboard, the clash and clang of steel, 
and all the savage, overwhelming tur- 
moil of a struggle to the death. Urged 
on by their officers' cries of "No quarter! 
Give the Yankees no quarter!" tin- 
British division which had attacked 
the bow hacked its way through the 
nettings, and succeeded by sheer weight 
of numbers in getting a footing on the 
deeck, all three of the American lieuten- 



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ants being killed or disabled in the 

terrific hand-to-hand struggle that en- 
sued. 

At this critical juncture, when the 
Americans on the forecastle, their officers 
fallen and their guns dismounted, were 
being pressed slowly hack by over- 
whelming numbers, Captain Reid, hav- 
ing repulsed the attack on the ARM- 
STRONG'S quarter, led the after di- 
vision forward at a run, the privateers- 
men, though outnumbered five to one, 
driving the English overboard witli the 
resistless fury of their onset. As the 
British boats, now laden with dead and 
dying, attempted to withdraw into 
safety, they were raked again and 
again with showers of lead; two of 
them sank, two of them were captured 
by the Americans. Finally, with nearly 
three hundred of their men — (three- 
quarters of the cutting-out-force), dead 
or wounded, the British, now cowed 
and discouraged, pulled slowly and 
painfully out of range. Some of the 
most brilliant victories the British navy 
has ever gained were far less dearly 
purchased. 

At three in the morning Reid received 
a note from Consul Dabney asking him 
to come ashore. He then learned that 
the governor had sent a letter to the 
British commander asking him to de- 
sist from further hostilities, as several 
buildings in the town had been injured 
by the British fire and a number of the 
inhabitants wounded. To this request 
Captain Lloyd had rudely replied that 
he would have the Yankee privateer 
if he had to knock the town into a heap 
of ruins. Returning on board, Reid 
ordered the dead and wounded taken 
ashore, and told the crew to save their 
personal belongings. 

At daybreak the CARNATION, being 
of lighter draught than the other vessels, 
stood close in for a third attack, opening 
on the privateer with every gun she 
could bring to bear. But even in those 
days the fame of American gunners 
was as wide as the seas, and so well did 
the crew of the GENERAL ARM- 
STRONG uphold their reputation that 



the CARNATION was compelled to 
beat a demoralized retreat, with her 
rigging cut away, her foremast about 
to fall, and with several gaping holes be 
tween wind and water. But Reid. 
appreciating that there was absolutely 
no chance of escape, and recognizing 
that further resistance would entail an 
unnecessary sacrifice of his men's lives, 
by which nothing could be gained, 
ordered the crew to throw the nine- 
pounders which had rendered such 
valiant service overboard and to leave 
the ship. The veteran gunners, who 
were as much attached to their great 
black guns as a cavalryman is to his 
horse, obeyed the order with tears 
ploughing furrows down their powder- 
begrimed cheeks. Then Reid with his 
own hand trained the long-torn down his 
vessel's hatchway, and pulling the lan- 
yard sent a charge of grape crashing 
through her bottom, from which she at 
once began to sink. Ten minute- later. 
before a British crew could reach her 
side, the GENERAL ARMSTRONG 
went to the bottom with her flag still 
defiantly flying. 

Few battles have been fought in 
which the odds were so unequal, and in 
few battles have the relative losses 
been so astounding. The three British 
war-ships carried two thousand men 
and one hundred and thirty guns, and 
of the four hundred men who composed 
the boarding party they lost, according 
to their own accounts, nearly three 
hundred killed and wounded. Of the 
American crew of ninety men, two were 
killed and seven wounded. This little 
crew of privateersmen had, in other 
words, put out of action more than 
three times their own number of British, 
and had added one more laurel to our 
chaplet of triumphs on the sea. 

The Americans had scarcely gained 
the shore before Captain Lloyd — who. 
by the way, had been so severly wounded 
in the leg that amputation was necessary 
— sent a peremptory message to the 
governor demanding their surrender. 
but the men who could not be taken at 
sea were not the men to be captured on 



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land, and the Americans, retreating 
to the mountainous centre of the island, 
took possession of a thick-walled con- 
vent, over which they hoisted the stars 
and stripe-, and from which they defied 
British and Portuguese alike to conn 
and take them. No one tried. 

All of the following day was -pent by 
the British in burying their one hundred 
and twenty dead — you can see tin- 
white gravestones to-day if you will 
take the trouble to climb the hill lie- 
hind the little town - but it took them 
a week to repair the damage caused by 
the battle. And so deep was their 
chagrin and mortification that when two 
British ships put into Fayal a leu days 
later, and were ordered to take home the 
wounded, they were forbidden to carry 
any new- of the disaster back to Eng- 
land. 

To Captain Reid and his little band 
of lighter- is due in no small measure 
the credit of saving Xew Orleans from 
rapture and Louisiana from invasion. 
Lloyd's squadron was a part of the 
expedition then gathering al Pensacola 
for the invasion of the South, but it 
was so badly crippled in it- encounter 
with the privateer that it did not reach 
the (lull' of Mexico until ten days later 
than the expedition had planned to 
sail. The expedition waited lor Lloyd 
and hi- reinforcement-, SO that when 
it finally approached Xew Orleans, 
Jackson and his frontiersmen, who had 
hastened down by forced marches from 
the North, had made preparations to 
give the English a warm reception. 
Had the expedition arrived ten days 
earlier it would have found the Ameri- 
cans unprepared, and Xew Orleans 
would have fallen. 

Captain Reid and his men, landing on 
their native soil at Savannah, found 
their journey northward turned into a 
triumphal progress. The whole country 
went wild with enthusiasm. There w-as 
not a town or village on the way but did 
them honor. The city of Richmond 
gave Captain Reid a great banquet, 
and the State of New York presented 
him with a sword of honor. But of all 



the tributes which were paid to the 
little band of heroes, none had the flax'or 
of the concluding line of a letter written 
by one of the British officers engaged in 
the action to a relative in England. 
"If this is the way the Americans 
tight." he wrote, "we max' well say. 
'God deliver us from our enemies.' 



SAMUEL CHESTER REID, was 

born al Norwich. Conn., on the 25th 
of August, 1783, and up to his eleventh 
year, his life was much the same as the 
average New England boy upon the 
farm. At this tender age, however, 
when most boys now-a-days would be 
found in the school room, we find him 
at sea, being captured by a French 
privateer, and imprisoned at Guada- 
loupe. 

Later he served as Acting Midship- 
man in the West Indian Squadron, 
under command of that bluff old mar- 
tinet. Commodore Tru.xton. And at 
the early age of thirty he was com- 
mander of that incomparable privateer, 
"the General Armstrong," of which 
I shall speak at length, later. 

Young Rod inherited a robust con- 
stitution, and his seafaring life detracted 
nothing from hi- entering early manhood 
in perfect physical condition. Of splen- 
did physique, a frank and winning 
countenance, with the customary mutton 
chop whisker- affected by naval 
men at that time, we can imagine 
him walking the quarter-deck, reliant 
in his height of <i feet _' or 3 inches, 
deep chested, muscular, his keen hazel 
eye, taking in at a glance, the minutest 
detail-, hi- clarion voice being heard 
high above the roar of wind and wave; 
a figure calling forth admiration from 
his superior officers, also a xery whole- 
some regard from the more turbulent 
members of his crew. 

It is said he "never lost his head" or, 
as the slang phrase has it, he " nexer 
got rattled." The greater the danger 
and responsibility, the calmer he be- 
came, and under any and all circum- 
stances, could always be found as calm 



Til E READE REGlHdi 



and serene as a summer morning — 
and to this as well as his utter fearless- 
ness, can he attributed his success as a 
commander. 

He was never troubled, as were other 
commanders, in getting a crew, for 
every seaman on the Atlantic seaboard 
deemed it a rare bit of good fortune to 
sail under his command knowing full 
well, that Reid would never order 
them to go, where he dared not lead. 

Though of a kindly and jovial dis- 
position, he was a lion when roused, 
and an enemy rarely escaped, once his 
righting blood was up. 

Unlike some, his modesty prevented 
his writing for posterity much of him- 
self or his deeds, and historians have 
failed to do him justice, for he, perhaps as 
much as General Jackson, was a great 
factor at the battle of New Orleans, the 
battle fought and won after the treaty 
of peace had been signed ending the 
war. 

Had it not been for his determined 
resistance to the British squadron in 
the harbor of Fayal, this expeditionary 
force sent out to reinforce Gen. Packen- 
ham, (so crippled by Capt. Reid's 
gunners, as to take nearly two weeks 
to repair damages,) would have been able 
to arrive at the appointed rendezvous 
on time, and it is possible historians 
would have had a different tale to tell 
regarding the battle of New Orleans. 

The intention of the British was to 
capture this city, the key to the whole 
Mississippi valley, and so disperse their 
forces along the river from the gulf 
to Canada as to prevent the further 
westward march of the young republic. 

The action of Captain Reid in de- 
laying the squadron under Lloyd pre- 
vented not only this scheme, but set 
at naught the agreement provided for, 
in the treaty, that all territory in pos- 
session of the English at the time of 
the treaty's acceptance by the govern- 
ment should remain under the authority 
of the crown, thus all the vast territory 
west of the Mississippi remained in 
our possession, notwithstanding the 
adroitness of the British diplomats. 



Capt. Reid after the loss of his ship, 
set out for home, and landed at Savan- 
nah, making his way northward In- 
land. On reaching Richmond, the Vir- 
ginians wishing to honor the hero of 
the hour tendered him a public dinner, 
at which the Governor, Members of 
the Council, Judges of the Supreme 
Court and other distinguished gentle- 
men attended. The speaker of the 
House of Burgesses presided, and Wm. 
Wirt was Vice President. When Capt. 
Reid retired, the chairman gave this 
sentiment, "Capt. Reid, his valor has 
shed a blaze of renown upon the char- 
acter of our seaman, and won for him- 
self a laurel of eternal bloom." 

On the 7th of April, 1815, the state 
of New York voted the thanks of the 
state and a sword to him, and the 
citizens, at Tammany Hall, presented 
him with a valuable service of plate. 

After the war, he was appointed a 
sailing master in the U. S. Navy, and 
held that office until his death. 

He was also Port Warden of New 
York and a weigher of customs. 

He invented and erected the signal 
telegraphs at the Battery and at the 
Narrows, N.Y., and also lias the distinc- 
tion of having invented tin- arrangement 
of tin- stars and stripes in our national 
standard. 

Capt. Reid was simple in his habits, 
upright in conduct, and honest in all 
his dealings. He was the chosen com- 
panion of many of the best and most 
distinguished citizens, and his memory 
is sweetest to those who knew him best. 

He died at New York on the L'Sth of 
January, 1861 . 

He was buried from Trinity Church, 
his remains being escorted to their 
last resting place in Greenwood Cemetery 
by the Marines of the Navy Yard at 
Brooklyn [See Ancestry, p. 15] 

No better account of the battle in which < apt. 
Keid won renown ever was given than that above 
from the pen of E. Alexander Powell, F.R.I r.S., 
author of "The Last Krontiei,"etc, from which 
it was taken ; also quotations from Cooper's 
History of the United States Navy, and Win- 
sor's Narrative and Critical Preparation of this 
paper. — William Wallace Lunt. 



THE READE RECORD 



Z\k IRcaoc IRccorft. 

Published bj 
THE READE SOCIETY 




Officers Elected, October 27, 1915 

President 
Brig. Gen. Philip Ki \i>i Boston 

I S. V Retired. 

Vice Presidents 

J. I'm lding Ri \i> New York 

Joshi \ E. Crani Taunton. 

Treasurer 

( ii uu i - I Rj mi Brookline 

Secretary 

Alanson II. Ki i i, .Welleslej Hills 

Genealogist 

Gi or i - Stew \nr Bedford. 



Annual Meetings 

rwelve annual meetings of the Readc Societj 
have been held in Massachusetts as follows:— 
Taunton, July 14, 1904. 
Boston, ( >i tober I-'. 1905 
South Weymouth, September 27, 1906. 
West Bridgewater, October 17. Hiti7. 
Boston, ()i tober 28, 1908 
Boston. October 28, 1909 
Lexington, ( »< tober 28, 1910. 
South Weymouth, October 27, 191 1. 
Burlington, ( )i tober 16, 1912. 
Boston, October 30, 1913. 
Boston. October 22, 1914. 
Huston. 0< tober 27, 1915. 



INVITED TO JOIN 

of membership fees (one 



YOU ARE 

Remittances 
dollar per year) (or $10 for a Life Membership) 
should be sent to Charles F. Read, Treasurer. 
Old State House, Boston, Mass. 



THE SECRETARY SAYS: 

— That he hopes the present issue of the Rec- 
ord will please the members. 

— That the Rev. James Reed, our venerable 
former President, is in his usual good health 
and sends his kindly regards to all. 

- -That it was intended to print a biographical 
sketch of Gen. PHILIP Reade, our now Presi- 
dent, but it was found that owing to his long 
service in the United States Army, and many 
offices in patriotic and social societies, the 
account would till a volume and space forbids. 
But the Reade Society is honored in having 
the General as its president. 

-That the will of John Read of Freetown, 
printed herewith, was kindly copied by our 
Vice-President, Mr. Joshua E, Crane, from 
the Bristol County Registry of Probate, at 
Taunton. Mass. 

— That the will of Philip Ki id of Abington, 
and the Administration of the Estate of his 
son, Stephen Reed, were copied by Mr. 
ALANSON II. Reed from the Plymouth County 
Registry of Probate, at Plymouth, Mass. 

That it is believed these wills and adminis- 
trations have not been printed before. 

- That the lines "Grandpa and I " are from a 
little volume of verse entitled "Three Score 
and Ten," published by one of our members, 
John Horace Rf.ed, of Armenia, \ Dak. 

—Thai our Vice-President,!. PAULDING Ri VD, 
of 71 Broadway. New \ ork, reports that on the 
17th of this present March, there was horn to 
him and his wife, Jim \l I itwin) Read, a son 
and heir, Thomas Dewitt Read, a namesake 
and lineal descendant of THOMAS Read, of 

i olehester, England, and of Thomas Read of 

Smlliury. Mass.. whose wills of 1665 and 1701, 
A. D. were printed in the .No Y 1 1 Reade Record. 

that anyone is eligible to join the Reade 
Society who is interested in its work and is 
willing to pay the annual due of Oni Dollar 

— That the Society needs a larger membership 
hi. I a larger income to do a larger and better 
genealogical work. 

— That if members will make It their business 
t" secure one or two new members it would 
be a great help. 

That the thanks of the Treasurer and Secre- 
tary are given to those members who have in 
the past so loyally stood by the Society ami 
paid their dues to date. 

— That those who have taken a Life Member- 
ship have become of the elect "whose works 
live after them" for all the Life Funds are de- 
posited in a Savings Bank and only the interest 
ever used. 

—That the Reade Society has no paid officials, 
its officers serving without pay " for the good 
of the cause." 



THE READE RECORD 




OstX>~^ It! /<-<~^c/, , 



Jacob Whitemore Reed may be called the 
".Father of American Read-Reed Genealogy," 
by reason of the publication in 1861 of his 
"History of the Reed Family in Europe and 
America." is vo. pp. 588.) The portrait 
above and fac-simile of his signature are re- 
produced from a copy of his work now in the 
library of the XewEng, Historic Genealogical 
Society. By some curious circumstance many 
of the books as published do not contain this 
portrait. To perpetuate the memory of the 
man who rendered such invaluable service to 
the numerous Read-Reed Family, and as a 
matter of interest to our Members, it has been 
reprinted here. His work has been the foun- 
dation, practically of all the Read-Reed Gen- 
ealogies now in print, as the information he 
collei led and published could not now be other- 
wise obtained. But while invaluable in this 
way, it is characterized by many errors and 
statements regarding the original immigrants 
which are in part excused by the then insufficient 
sources of information, and the less critical 
genealogical work then done, ft has been 
the province of the "Reade Society" to correct 
' these so far as possible and print the results in 
the "Reade Record." A comparison of the 
latter with Mr. Reed's book will show the 
progress so far made. 



Jacob Whitemore Reed was a resident of 
Groveland, Massachusetts. He was an attorney- 
at law at South Groveland, and postmaster 
of that village from 1854 to 1862. Admitted 
a member of the New England Historic Gen- 

j ealogical Society in 1856. "He possessed an 
unusual memory and was a man of great 
energy of character together with an in- 
domnitable will which carried him through 
many difficulties." This is well evidenced by 
his undertaking to publish in his book the 

, genealogies of all the Read-Reed Families in 
America! To this work he devoted more 
than ten years of his life. A part of the letters 
and papers from which he compiled his work 
are now in the possession of our Secretary. 
Mr. Alanson H. Reed. 

Jacob Whitemore Reed, was the third son 
of Abel and Ruth (Lane) Reed and a descend- 
ant of William Read of Woburn, Mass.. 
who came to America in 1635. 

J v oiAV'hitemore Reed 8 ,Abel 7 , Moses 1 ', Sam- 
uel6, William 4 , Wi i. lia.m-' 1 , George 2 , YViu i \\i 
Born Andover N.H., March 20, 1805. 

Married Oct. 3, 1826, Ruhamah B. Ten 
xey. dau. of William Texnev of Bradford. 

He died Nov. 10, 1869. She died July 25, 1875. 

Issue, two sons & three daughters. 



HERALDRY 

Sir James Lawrence, speaking of heraldry 
and nobility in his " Nobility of the British 
Gentry," thus explains the original use of, and 
the different methods of obtaining armourial 
bearings; "Any individual who distinguishes 
himself may be said to enoble himself. A prince 
judging an individual worthy of notice gave 
him patent letters of nobility. In these letters 
were emblazoned the arms that were to distin- 
guish his shield. By this shield he was to be 
known, as nobilis. A plebian had no blazonry 
on his shield pecause he was ignoblis, or un- 
worthy of notice. Hence arms are the criterion 
of nobility. In every country in Europe, with- 
out exception a grant of arms or letters patent 
of nobility is conferred on all the descendants. 
Thus it will be seen that the essential part of 
heraldry to chivalry was the hereditary char- 
acter of coat armour. It may be as well to ex- 
plain that this appellation of a coat-of-arms 
originated from the practice of embroidering 
the family insignia on the surcoat, a garment 
worn over the armour or shirt of mail. 

These surcoats in later times were used only 
by heralds, by whom they are still worn, when 
on official duties, and by pages and menials of 
princely or noble houses. But arms were not 
only seen on the surcoat. They appeared on 
the caparisons of a knight's horse, on his shield 
and accoutrements, were embroidered on the 
wall hangings of the castle hall and lent great 
authority to his engraved seal. 

From A B C of HERALDRY 
Jacobs <&" Co., Philadelphia, Publishers. 



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THE READE RECORD 



WILL OF JOHN REED 

of Freetown, Mass., 17131714. ? Son of John Read of 
Newport, R. I.— No. 28, Keade List. 

In the name of God, Amen. I 
John Read of Freetown, in the 
County of Bristoll within the Province 
of Massachusetts Bay in New 
England, yeoman: Calling to mimic 
my owne mortallity & remembring 
it is appointed for all once to dye, 
being at this present time of a sounde 
minde & memory as at other times, 
Praised be God for the Same Doe make 
this my last will & testiment in maimer 
and forms followeing that is to say, 
first & Principally I commend my soule 
into the hands of God, And my Body 
I commit to the earth to he Decently 
Buried at the discretion of my executrix 
herein after mentioned And a:' for un- 
worldly estate which God of hi< goodness 
hath bestowed upon mee, I give, 
bequeathe and bestowe as followeth. 

First I will that my just debts and 
funerallExpences bepaid and discharged. 

[TEM. I give & bequeath unto my 
well beloved wife. HANNAH Read, 
all that my house and lands in Freetown 
wherein I now live (which land I bought 
of Mathue Boomer Senior) & is a full 
quarter part of the fourth lott in Number 
&: is the Northermost part or quarter 
of said lott for and during her Natural 
Life, with all the priviliges thereunto 
belonging. 

Item. I give and bequeath unto 
my said wife all my stock, movables 
& Negroe man James for and during 
her Natural Life & to be disposed 
of by her to & amongst my children 
as shee shall see meet: Also I give 
& bequeath unto my said wife Hannah 
Read, five acres of salt meddow which 
I bought of Heugh Coai.e, out of my 
tract of Meddowes lying on Taunton 
River in Shewomick, at a place called 
the Great Meddow for and during her 
Natural Life. 

Item. I give & bequeath unto my 
eldest son John Read of Freetown 
aforesaid, Twoo acres & ahalf of Salt 
Meadow lying & being the Westermost 



side of Taunton River at a place Known 
by ye name of the Great Meaddows 
aforesaid & is now in the possession 
of my said son John Read, (which 
meadow I bought of Mr. John Bayly, 
beside a halfe lott that may apeare 
by deed under my hand & seal with 
all & singular the privileges & appur- 
tanances with the said twoo acres & 
halfe of meadowes belonging or in 
anywise apperteineing to him my said 
son John Read, his heirs assignes forever. 

Item. I give and bequeath unto my 
son Joseph Read of Freetowne, afore- 
said, the one whole quarter part of that 
share of land I purchased of Mr. Peter 
& Ralph Thatchers of Milton, in 
the Province afforesaid being the eight 
shaire or lott in Number. 

Together with three acres & ahalf 
of -alt meadow lying & being on the 
westermost side of Taunton River 
at a place knowne by the Name of 
the Great Meadowes which meadow 
I purchased of Joshua Gildee of 
Freetowne afforesaid besides one quarter 
sheireof land that may apeare by Deed 
under my hand and seal with all and 
singular the profitts priveledges & 
appurtanances unto the said quarter 
part of the- said eight share, being the 
Southermost part, or quarter of said 
Sheire & three acres, & half of meadow 
belonging or in anywise appurtaining 
to him my said son Joseph Read his 
heirs & assignes for ever, as also my 
dwelling house & land where I now live 
with all the profitts & priveledges 
therunto belonging unto him my said 
son Joseph Read, his heirs, & a--ignes 
forever after the death & decease of 
his mother my now wife, Hann \ii Read. 
All waves Providing my said son, 
Joseph Read, Pay or Cause to be paid 
twenty six pounds currant money of 
New England, unto my Grandchildren 
which my daughter, Hannah Shear- 
man left and to bee paid as hereafter 
is exprest. 

Item. To my grandchild Benjamin 
Shearman, six Round. To my grand- 
son, John Shearman, Five Round. 
To my grandson, Joseph Shearman 



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five Pound. To my grandson, Oliver 
Shearman, Five Pound. To my 
grandson, Thomas Shearman Five 
Pound to be paid to each child as 
thev arrive or be of twenty one years 
of age. 

Further, my minde & will is that il 
it pleas God that any or either of these 
children dy before he or they come 
to the age dI" twenty- one years, that 
his or their legacy or legacies shall be 
paid unto the survivers in equall parts 
& to be paid to the Survivers at the 
time as he or they do or should have 
come unto lawful age, or twenty one 
years of age. 

Inn. The above mentioned five 
acres of meadows given & bequeathed 
unto my said wife, Hannah Read, 
clureing her natural life, I give & be- 
stowe upon my said sons, John & 
Joseph Read, to be divided betwixt them : 
viz. To my sou John, Three acres 
& to my son Joseph twoo acres to be 
to them their heires & assignes re- 
spectively forever, after their said 
Mother decease. 

Furthermore, Notwithstanding the 
disposition of my lands & Meddows 
as above expressed unto my said son 
Joseph Read my will and meaneing 
is that my wife Hannah Read, shall 
have the use and benefitt of a certaine 
creek lyeing within the three acres 
& halfe of meadows given to my said 
son Joseph, or any others by her order, 
dureing her natural life & free liberty 
to cut what wood timber, rayles or 
other woden materiels which shee hath 
ocation for & to cart the same being 
cult of from the quarter sheire of land 
bequeathed to Joseph Read dureing 
her natural life. 

My mind & meaning is that my 
negroe James, shall be to my wife 
& her heirs & assigns forever to be solde 
or disposed of as shee shall think fitt 
anything exprest to ye contrary not- 
withstanding. 

Item. I give & bequeath unto the 
Sabboth Keeping Church of Christ 
in Newport on Rod Island unto whome 
I now belong, viz. 



Mr. William Gibsons Church of 
the which Mr. William Hitchcock, 
did belong the summ of three pounds 
currant Money of New England to 
be paid by my executrix within the 
space of one year after my decease, 
And of this my last will and testiment, 
I do nominate appointe & Impower my 
now well beloved wife, FIannah Read, 
my sole executrix. " 

And request my loving Friends 
Doctor Richard Winslow, of Free- 
towne aforesaid & William Tew of 
Tiverton in the County aforesaid to 
be my overseers of this my last will 
& Testiment to assistt my executrix 
in what they may & to see that my will 
be performed according to the true 
Intentt & Meaneing thereof, entreating 
them to except of twenty shillings 
apeice as a token of my love, to be 
paid to them by my executrix above 
named, And I do hereby utterly disallow, 
revoke & Annull all other former testi- 
ments wills legacies bequeaths & executors 
by mee in any wise before this time 
named, w'lled & bequeathed rattifying 
& confirming this and no other to be 
m\ last will &: testiment. 

In witness whereof T have hereunto 
sett my hand & scale this fifth day of 
March" Anno Domi, one thousand 
-even hundred & thirteen or fourteen, 
and in the thirteenth year of the Reign 
of Queen Ann. over Great Brittion. 
France & Ireland etc. 

JOHN READ [seal] 

Signed, sealed, published, pronounced, declared 

by the said John Read Senr. as his last will 

& testiment in the Presence of 

t onstant Church Samuel Foreman 

John Peirci Nathan Closson 

The words in the twelfth line for 
and during her natural life, The words 
in ye fourteenth line Name of the. 
The words in ye thirty first Lyne tor 
legacies) anil the words in the thirty 
second line at ye times (have been) 
was all enter lyned before signing & 
sealing of ye above written Instrument. 
Bristol S.S., February 6th, 17:21.-22 

Bristol County, Registry of Probate 
Hook t. page (i. 7 & 8. 



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Til E READ E K EC ORD 



WILL OF PHILIP READ, 2d 

of Bridgewater and Abington, 1715, son of Philip of 
Weymouth. No. 10 Reade List. 

In ye name of God; amen. The 
first day of January, in ye year of 
Our Lord one thousand seven hundred 
nine, ten: I Philip Read* of Bridge- 
water in ye County of Plymouth in 
New England Husbandman. Being 
weak in Body, But of perfect Mind 
& memory, thanks be given unto 
God, therfor Calling to Mind the 
Mortality of my Body, and Knowing 
yt it is appointed for Men once to dye, 
do make & ordain this my last will 
& Testament, that is to say Principall) 
& fir-t of all, 1 give & Recommend 
my soul into the hands of God, that 
gave it, hoping through ye Merits 
Death & Passion of my Saviour Jesus 
Christ, to have full & free pardon 
of all my sins, & to inherit everlasting 
Life; & my Body I committ unto 
ye Earth to be decently Buried at 
ye Discrestion of My Executoi here- 
after named, nothing doubting bul 
at ye general Resurrection, I shall 
Receive ye same again by ye Mighty 
Power of < it >< 1 ; and as touching such 
wordly Estate wherewith it hath 
Pleased God to Bless Me in This Life, 
I give Demise & Dispose of the same 
in the folowing maimer and form 
that is to say: 

First I will yt. all those Debts 
& Duties as I do owe in right or Con- 
cience to any Manner of Person or 
Persons, whatsoever Shall be satisfyed 
Contented & paid or ordained to be 
paid in any Convenient time after my 
Decease by my Executor hereafter 
named. 

Item: I give & Bequeath to Abigail 
my Dearly Beloved wife one third 
part of ye neat profit, or income of all 
my estate during her life to be paid 
i her by my Executor hereafter named) 
yearly or year by year. 

Item: I give & Bequeath to my 
two Daughters Hannah & .\1 \ry which 
I had by my first wife, five shillings to 
each of them to be paid by my Executor. 



Item: 1 give & Bequeath to My 
two youngest Daughters to witt 
Abigail & Rebeckah five shillings 
to cadi of them, to be paid by my 
Executors hereafter named. 

Item: 1 give & Bequeath unto 
well beloved son Stephen Read 
whom I likewise Constitute make & 
ordain my sole executor of this my 
Last will & Testament, all my goods 
& Chattels & Singular my Lands 
Messuages & tenements by him freel) 
to be possessed and Enjoy: And I 
do hereby utterly Disallow Revoke 
& Disanull all former Testaments and 
wills, willed & Bequeathed, Ratifying 
& Confirming this & no other to be 
my last Will & Testament. In witness 
whereof I have hereunto set my hand and 
seale the day and year above written. 

Signed sealed published pronounced 
and declared by the said PHILIP READ 
as his last will and testament in the 
presence of us, 
John Ri i d Philip Reed 

Jacob Reed [Seal] 

Memorand: That on the 2'A day 
of June 1715 William Read & John 
Ri \d two of the Witnesses to this 
Will -Made oath that they saw the 
within Named Philip Ri ad, Signe 
& Seale the within written Instrument 
& heard him declair it to be his last 
Will & Testament & that he was 
of a disposing mind & .Memory to the 
best of their knowledge Before Me. 
Nathaniel Thomas, Judge of Probates 

Will proved the 23d day of fune, 1~15 

His son, Stephen Read, Sole Executor. 

[Note. The spelling of the name, "Read", 
follows that in theoiiginul will. but the copyist 
in Vol. 3 followed that of the signatures to the 
will— Reed. 

An Inventory of the estate of 
Philip Read late of Abington in the 
County of Plymouth Deceased the 
23d of June, 1 7 i . > . By the Subscribers. 

I m prim: To his house & about 
14 acres land in Abington 1(1:0:0. 

To his other estate given away 

Before his Death — 

William Reap John Read 



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Stephen* Read Executor of tin- last 
will and Testament of his Father 
Philip Read Deceased Made Oath yt., 
ye above written is a true Inventory 
of the Estate of his said Father so far 
as he Knows & when he Knows of 
more will cause it to be added. Before 
me, Nathaniel Tho\l\s 

fudge of Probate 



Reg. Deeds .Plymouth 
Joseph Green ofWeymouth Conveys to 
'"Philip Reed some lime Inhabitant 
of above sd Weymouth & now of the 
Town of Bridgewater in the County 
of New Plymouth in New England, 
Wch., lands lyeth within the Town- 
ship of sd Bridgewater, on both sides 
of the Roadway that goes to Shaws 
ffarm & Weyniouth; Bounded" ****. 
Thirty five acres. Consideration £. 
40. Dated 5th February, 1(597-8. 

Joseph Green. (Seal) 
Ackd4th March, 1706 7. 

Note — This is the earliest conveyance 
to Philp Reed noted in the Plvmouth 
Reg. [Vol. 10.1'd part p. 217]. 

Philip Reed of Bridgewater Conveys to 
son Samuel Reed of the same place 
Fifteen acres in Bridgewater. Considera- 
tion £. Six pounds. 

Dated 15, October, 170.".. 

Philip Reed Seal 
Abigail Reed mark 
Suffolk, SS. 

Philip Reed, Senr. of Abington per- 
sonally appearing — acknowledged this 
-the 4th March, 170(1-7. 

Ephraim Hunt. 

This is part (if the farm purchased by 
Philip in 1697-8, and is the first and only 
conveyance by him. [Vol. 26, p. — ] 



ESTATE OF STEPHEN READ 

of Abington — Adm. 1784. 

LETTER OF ADMINISTRATION 

"To Mary Read of Abbington 
in ye County of Plymouth [Province 
of ye Massachusetts Bay, In New: 



England], afore said. Widdow greeting. 
Whereas your Husband Stephen 
Read, late of Abbington in ye County 
of Plymouth afore sd. deed., having 
- goods, chattels Rights & Credits" 
I do hereby * * constitute 
& appoint you administratrix" etc., 
4, Jan.. 1724 Isaac Winslow 



inventory 
To the Hon'd Judge of Probate 
for ye County of Plymouth, Abbington 
Aprill ye 2, 1725, wee ye subscribers 
prised ye estate Real & personal! of 
Stephen Read lately Deceased £. Sh. d 
The House & Barn & about 45 acres 
of Land with an orchard upon it 
att 200!0:0 

and (i acres of Swamp or Meadow Land 
and a (ith Part of a Purchase 
Right of Land 18:0:0 

partly in Bridgewater & partly 6:0:0 
in Abbington 

£224:0:0 
and a parcel of Timber 5:0:0 

and four oxen 25:0:0 

and th ee cows & (i young Cattle 18:0:0 
and one Horse Bridle & Saddle 6:0:0 
andone twelvth Part of a Saw Mill 7:0:0 
and for two Swine 1 :0:0 

and for Fight Load of Hay 9:0:0 

and for Cart & Wheels & Chains 0:5:0 
and for two axes wedges & Rings 1 :0:0 
and for his wearing clothes 6:13:0 

for Chest rs Chais & Table 1:14:0 

for Pewter & Iron 3:5:0 



William Reed 
Samuel Porter 



£S9:17;0 
Samuel Pool 



"April ye 26th 1725 

Mary Read, administratrix on ye 
estate of her Husband Stephen Read 
late of Abbington . dee'd made 

oath that the above written is a true 
and perfect Inventory "etc. 



Guardian of Children of Stephen 
Read of Abington 
To Mr. Ebenezer Shaw of Bridge- 
water greeting - whereas Abi- 
gail Read the daughter of Stephen 
Read late of Abington - who i- 



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a minor under the age of twenty one 
years and above ye age of fourteen 
years hath made choice of you to be 
her guardian" — etc. 

Cranted 5th Dec, 1737— 

***Ruth Reed the daughter of 
Stephen Reed late of Abington, 
who is a Minor under the age of 21 & 
above the age of 14 . 

**Rebkkah Reed the dau. of Stephen 
Reed . . under 21 & above I I. 

**Philip Reed the Son of Stephen 
Reed, late of Abington etc. Minor 
under the age of 1 4 yrs. ">th 1 )ec, 1 ~:»7 — . 

Ebenezer Shaw of Bridgewater 
appointed guardian for the above. — 



ESTATE OF STEPHEN REED 
of Abington. 

Division of Lands —Dec. 9, I7:>7 
Divided into 5 shares by Meets 
& bounds — by Jacob Reed 

Christopher Dyer Thos. Win i marsh 
& presented in Court 
Jan. 18, 1737 

The Judge of Probate assigned — 
To Ruth Reed living in Bridgewater 

the First Share. 
To Philip Reed living in Abington 

the Second Share. 
"To M vryShaw wife of Ebenezeb Sh u\ 

of Bridgewater— —who is one of 

the daughters of the said deceased" 

the third Share. 
"The Fourth Share to Rebeckah 
Reed now living in Rehoboth in 
the County of Bristol, who is one 
of the daughters of deceased." 
"The .">th Share to Abigail Reed now 
living in Rehoboth - - one of the 

daughters of the deceased". 
Made & done the 20th Jan.. L737. 

[Vols. ."> & 7, Reg. Prob. Plymouth]. 



THE READE FAMILY 

In the Great War 

One of our members, Mr. B. Clin i i >:-. 

Reade, of St. John, New Brunswick, 

Can. writes us, "You ask for the 

names of mv sons who enlisted. 



Staff Sergeant, Joseph C. Ri \im . 
is a druggist and enlisted with the 
(Red Cross) First Canadian Con- 
tingent B. Section No. 1. Field Am- 
bulance. He has charge of the drugs 
and aids the doctors when the wounded 
are taken into the Hospital. In his 
hist Utter of Dec, l>7, 1915, he said 
he had earned a commission and was 
now Lieut. Reade. 

He has been right to the front now 
for nearly a year. He i> 24 years old. 

My other Son Kenneth P. Reade, 
17 years of age, is a Sergeant in the 
104th Battalion. I guess they come 
from fighting stock, all right, a: you 
can see from the "Reed Book" on 
p. 243, that their Gr. Gr. Grandfather 
Eliphalet Reade fought under Gen. 
Wolfe at the taking of Quebec in 
1759." They are descendants of 
John Read, of Rehoboth. Mas-.., 
who came to America prior to 1640 
& firsl settled in Weymouth. 



WHEN I WAS YOUNG. 

When I wa' young, Och hone 
The sun it shone sae bricht ! 
Nae sweeter song the birds, 
Amangst the trees did sing 
1m ears of mortal man; 
And greener grass nae grew 

When I wa' young, Och hone 
The silvery tish did sport 
In babbling brooklet clear, 
And jewel'd dragon flies 
Sail i' the Summer air, 
\ikI bees delight to hum. 

When I wa' young, Och hone 
\ laddie straight and trim 
The brauest lassie dear 
WV foot sae light and free, 
An angel loaned to earth, 
Wi' me did dance upo' the greene. 

Och hone, now am I auld 

The dayes, are clouded all 

And lass and laddie gay 

In laughter pass me by. 

Hist! wad ye nae rue it. 

Ye mauna ne'er grow auld! a. U.K. 



THE READE R E C O R I > 



15 



ANCESTRY OF 
CAFT. SAMUEL CHESTER REID. 

Lieut. John Reid = Rebecca Chester 
Feb. 1781 



of the British Navy 
Son of Lord John Reid 
of Glasgow, Scotland 

[See Nat.C'yclo. of Am 
Biog. Vol.VIII.,p.97.J 



b — 1763 (Iroton.Conn. 
Dau. James and 
Thankfull Chester 
[See "The story of Re- 
becca Chester."Yol.41, 
Am.Month. Mag., 1912] 



Samuel Chester Reii> = Mary Jennings 
8 June, 1813 



b. — Norwich, Conn. 

Aug.25,1783. d.— New 

York City, 1861 

Commodore in the 

U. S. Navy. 

[See Nat. Cvclo. Am. 
Biog., Vol. VIII, p. 97] 



b— d — 

Dau. 
Capt. Nathan Jennings 

of Fairfield, Conn. 
[See lennings Geneal- 
ogy, Vol. II. p. 422] 
[See Who'sWho.Vols. 
1903-5, 1910-11] 



"Mary Jennings the dau. of Capt. 
Nathan Jennings and wife of Com- 
modore Reid made the American flag 
at her house assisted by some of her 
young lady friends, according to an 
Act of Congress passed April 4, 1818, 
and approved by President Monroe, 
and adopted in its present form; the 
design was made by Commodore Reid 
at the request of Peter H. Wendover, 
Chairman of the Congressional Com- 
mittee. The new flag made by Mary 
Jennings Reid, was hoisted over the 
house of Congress while Henry Clay 
was Speaker, April L3, IMS, at 2 
o'clock P. M." 

Before this time the flag had thirteen 
stars representing the original thir- 
teen Colonies, and a stripe for each 
State in the Union. This order was 
changed in the new Hag, by having a 
Star for every State, additional stars 
to be added each -1th of July as future 
States were admitted to the Union 
while the stripes were reduced to 
thirteen, representating the original 
Colonies. 



HAPPY - UNTIL! 

A young man recently got married and 
took a cottage down South, determined to 
grow enough vegetables to keep the household 
going. II«' started to dig up the garden, 
and. after half an hour's hard work, was as- 
tonished to find a quarter at his feet. Then 
he dug with renewed ardor. Several pennies, 
a half dollar and three dimes rewarded his 
efforts. 

"Well, if this isn't a gold mine!" he said, 
digging away f'>r all he was worth. "I wonder 
what I'll find next?" 

His arms ached, little beads of perspira- 
tion trickled down his nose and his neck (ell 
as though it was breaking. He could slick 
it out no longer. He straightened his back 
at last with a groan of pain, and at the same 
instant felt something cold sliding down his 
leg. In a moment he had grasped the truth. 
There was a hole in his trousers pocket. 
[Philadelphia Ledger. 

Possibly one of the Reed Family, as some of 
them complain now-a-days of "holes in the 
pocket!" 



GRANDPA AND I. 

My Grandpa says he likes to fish 
And so do I. 

When spring time comes he gets his wish 
And so do I. 

We take our tackle to the lake 
And anchor somewhere mar the slake. 
He reels in wh 'ii he gels a strike 
And hollers when he gets a pike 
And so do I. 

He says most any fish are good 
And so say I. 

He'd catch a bun lred if he could 
And so would I. 

He likes the bass, they are so wise. 
And pickerel if they are go id size, 
He sav^ I hat fish are far from (o lis, 
For only suckers go in sch ioIs, 

And so say I . 

By John Horaci Rja d. 



WICKED READ 

"The New World of Words, or Universal 
English Dictionary," by Edward Philips, 1720, 
defines the word Read as : 

" Reade or Rede (old word), counsel or advice, 
as in the first of the singing psalms : 
"The man is blest that hath not bent 
To wicked Read his ear." 



16 



T HK RE A DE S O C I E T V 



Crank. JoSHU \ E 
Goodrich, Mrs. Ella R. 
Hi idges, M ESS Mary A. 
Lefferts, Marshall C. 
MORS! , Willard S. 
Read, Charles F. 
Read, Miss Clara A. 
Read, Miss Ella H. 
Read. Franklin 
Read, George B. 
Read, George W. 
Read, Joseph 
Read. Joshu \ W. 
Read. J. Paudling 
Read. Samuel H. 
Reed, Ai \\s<>\ H 



LIFE M 
Bridge water M.i — 
Hartford, Conn, 

Foxboro, Mass. 

New York N Y. 

New York. V V. 

Brookline. Mass 

New Bedford, Mass 

New Bedford. Mass. 

Pittsfield. Mass. 

Bloomington, His. 

Taunton. Muss. 

Summerside, P. E. I. 

Newark. N J. 

Newark, N. J. 

New Haven Con 

Wellesley Hills M;i^- 



EMBERS 

Reed. Charles \Y. 
Reed, Edgar 
Reed. Miss Ellen A. 
Reed, James (Rev.) 
Reed, James (D.D.S I 
Reed, John S. 
Reed. Marion B. 
Reed, Reuben L. 
Kiiii Robert C. 
Robinson, Mrs. Grace R. 
Storey, Hampton L. 
Warren, Mrs. Catherine R. 
Waterman, Mrs. Lewis A 
Wells, Wellington 
*Read, Willi \m A. 
*Reade, Edgar S 



Boston 

Worcester, Mass. 

New Haven, Conn. 

Boston. 

t helve,! MaSS. 

Boston 

l.ow ell, Mass. 

South At ton. Mass. 

Boston 

New V,,rk. N. V. 

Alt .11 hii.i , Calif. 

Cambridge, Mass 

Providence, R. I. 

Boston 

♦Deceased 



ANNUAL MEMBERS 



Akin, Mrs. Emma R. New York. N. V. 

Alley, John 5 Pelham. X. Y. 

Andrews. Mrs. Ella R. New York \ N 

Blackmer, Mrs. Catherine Tufts College, Mass 

Blancbard, John S. C. South Weymouth, Mass 

Blanchard, Miss Mary L South Weymoth, Mass 
BLANCH ARD, Miss St sanna R. South Weymouth, Mass. 
Brummer, Mrs. Mary A. C. Lisbon. N. H. 

Clarke. Arthur F. Brookline, Mass 

Clarke, Miss Helen G. Brookline, Mass. 

Cross, Mrs. John A. Providence, R. I. 

Cross, Rev. Roselle T. Twinsburg, Ohio. 

Dodd, Rev. Henry M. Clinton. N Y. 

Elwell. Mrs. James H. South Weymouth, Mass. 

Everett, Mrs. Charlotte S. Chicago 111 



Farr, Mrs. Virginia R 
Field. Mrs. John W. 
Field. J. Howard 
Fisher, Harlan M 
Fletcher, Harry <; 
Friend, Thaddeus E. 
Hallett. Frank T. 
Hallett Mis- s\ K \h N. 
Hubbard, Mrs. Charles T. 
Hubbart, Mrs. Elizabeth R 
Hutchinson, Edward B. 
J \< Ks.iN-. Mrs. Holmes C. 
Johnson, Alfred 
Kimball Mi-s Hi i.i- n I 
Kneeland, Benjamin C. R. 
Lewis, James F. 
Lewis, Mrs. Josephine R. 
Magrath, Mrs. Emma E. 
Marshall, Miss Adaline T. 
Merriam, Mrs. Evan B. 
Merkow, Mrs Rena M. 
Morss, Mrs. Everett 
Nead, Mrs. Daniel W. 
Neil. Mrs. Henry M. 
Norton. Mrs. Joseph A. 
Orcutt. Jason B. 
Peet, Miss Helen L. 
Pettee, Mrs. Benjamin 
Prescott, Miss Clar\ F. 
Preston. Mrs. George C. 
Prouty, M ks. Mary R. 
R \y\imnd, Daniel 
Read, Alexander 
Read. Andrew J. 
Read. Charles A. 
Re\d, Charles F. 
Read. Charles W P. 
Read, Clarence F. 
Read, Miss Edith B. 
Read, Edward M. 
Read, Rev. F.phraim A. 
Read, Frederick F. 
Read. George R. 
Read, Harold C 
Read, Henry P. 
Read. Miss Margaret H. 
Read. Matthew H 
Read, William 
Reade, B. Clinton 
Reade, Rev. Charles G. 
Reade. Joseph F., Jr 



Atlanta Ga 

Dorchester, Mass. 

Brockton, M.hv 

Holcomb, N. Y. 

We-i Somerville M.i^ 

Gloucester Mass 

New \ orb \ \ 

Providence K 1 

Taunton, Mas-,. 

San Francisco Cal. 

I i mbridge, Mass 

East Orange. N J. 

Boston, Mass. 

Brookline. Mass 

Woburn Mas-. 

Taunton. M i ■ ■ 

South Duxbury, M.is> 

Everett M ass 

York Village, Mr 

Syracuse N Y 

Maiden, Mass. 

Boston. Mass 

Reading, Pa. 

Columbus. < ihm 

Lisbon, N H 

South Brain tree Mas-. 

Hudson. N. Y. 

Roxbury, Mass 

Lawrence M;is^ 

Norwich Conn 

Scituate, Mass. 

Thompkinsville, N Y. 

Santa Fe, N M 

Boston 

Manchester Mass. 

\\ orcester, Mass. . 

New Boston. N H 

Wellsville, N. Y. 

Brookline, M a - 

St. Louis, Mo. 

Providence, R. I. 

Manhasset, N Y. 

New York. N. Y. 

Brookline. Mass. 

Brooklvn. N Y. 

New York. X Y 

Crescent City, Fla. 

I .i m 1 -riili-'L' M.i — 

St. John N B. 

Cincinnati. Ohio 

New York, N. Y 



Reed, Aaron A. 
Reed, Albert A. 
Reed, Albert M. 
Reed, Alonzo B. 
Reed, Charles Dana 
Reed. Charles K. 
Reed, Miss Clara M. 
Reed, Clarence D. 
Reed, Dana 
Reed, Edward D. 
Reed, Edward M 
Reed. Edward F. 
Reed, Edward T. 
KlKU Miss Euz \hi th 
Reed, Eugene \\ 
REED E Howard 
Reed. Floyd 0. (M.D.) 
Reed, Francis it 
Reed. Fred L. 
k i i D, l REDERII K E 

k I ed, Frederic H. 
Reed, George A. 
Reed Re\ i George H. 
Reed, George M 
Ki 1 1» George W 
Ri i i> I Rev.) Harry W. 
Reed, Miss Helen Leah 
Reed, Henry B. 
Reed, Homer J. 
Reed, Horatio m 
Reed, Jefferson H. 
Reed, John H 

Ki ED, J RlSSELL 

Reed, J. Warner, Jr. 
Reed, Miss Lillian- 
Reed. Miss Luck H. 
Ki i i> Miss M ve I 
Reed, Mrs. Margaret E. 
Reed. Marshall 
Reed, Morris A. 
Reed. Ralph D. 
Reed, Samuel B. 
Reed Sylvanus \ 
Reed, Warren A. (Hon i 
Reed, William A 
Reed, William B. 
Reed, (Dr.) Willi \\i I 
Reed., William E 
ki i d, William H. 
Reed, Prof. Wm. Howell 
Reed. Mrs. William H 
Reed, William R. 
Russell. Miss H. Priscilla 
Russell, Mrs. Louisa S. 
Sargent, All\-. C. 
Sawyer, Mrs. Edward E. 
Simpson, Rev. Henry J. 
•smith, Mrs Samui i. F. 
Stevens. Mrs. Sara R. 
stow ill. Mrs. Charles H. 
Ware. Lyman E. 
\\ \shburn. Mrs. Alfred F. 
Webb. Mrs, Ellen R. 
Wilkinson, Mrs. Henry W. 
Williams. G Mutt {Rt. Rev. i 



W hit man, Mass. 

Boulder, Colo. 

Albany. N. Y. 

West Somerville. Mass. 

New York, NY. 

Won ester M.i iS 

West field, Mass. 

Whitman. Mass. 

Coon Rapids, Iowa. 

Buffalo, N. Y. 

Wellesley Hills, Mass. 

Everett, MMass. 

Albany. N Y. 

Boston 

North Brooktield. Mass 

Worccsicr Mass 

Yonkers, N Y 

East Weymouth Mas- 

( lohasset Mass. 

Thompson. Conn 

New York, \. Y 

Barre. Yt. 

Concord, N . H 

Menne. N H 

I ■; . . - 1 . . 1 1 

Watertown N. Y. 

Cambridge M a -- 

Auburndale, Mass 

Canandaigua, N. Y. 

New York, N Y. 

Indianapolis, End. 

Amenia, No. Dak 

Boston 

Benton Harbor, Mich. 

Washington, D. C. 

Soul li W eymoul h Mass. 

I i ilumbus, Ohio 

Boston Mass 
East Whitman, Mass 
si Joseph, Mo. 
Manchester, V H 
Boston 
New York V Y 
Brockton, Mas- 
Bristol Center, V Y 
U est field, Mass 
Washingtonville, N Y. 
New York. N Y 
I ten\ ei ' "I" 
Roxbury, Mass 
South Weymouth, Mass 
New Brunswick. N, J. 
Arlington, Mass 
Arlington, Mass 
Graniteville, Mas-. 

Lowell. Mass, 
Detroit. Mich 
Newton Centre. Ma 

Portland. Me. 

Lowell. M;i- 

Norfolk Mass 

B kline Mass 

5< ii uate Mass. 
Providence, R I. 
Marquette, Mich. 



II 

^be 1Rea6e IRecorfc 

Number IX BOSTON. MASS. 1916 

THE READE SOCIETY 

FOR GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH 
ORGANIZED 1904 INCORPORATED 1914 



The Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the Reade Society was 
held at the Hotel Brunswick, Boston, on Tuesday, October 31, 1916. 
A reception was held at 12.30 P.M., at which greetings were 
exchanged bv the members present and their guests. 

Dinner was served at one P.M., after which Gen. Philip Reade, 
the President of the Society, presided. 

After a greeting from the President, the record of the last 
meeting was read and approved. The reports of the Treasurer 
and the Secretary, which showed that the Society was in a pros- 
perous condition, were also read and approved. 

The election of officers then followed. The names are 
recorded on page 8. 

During the dinner and meeting vocal musical selections were 
rendered by Miss Ethel Eagleston, Miss J. Leland Clarke accom- 
panying her on the pianoforte. 

At the conclusion of the meeting, after singing a verse of 

America, the company joined hands, and the President gave as a 

sentiment: 

May your joys be tike a ring, 

Without an end. 
May your sorrows be like a ring, 

Without a beginning. 



Boston, Mass., October 31, 1916. 





ALAXSOX H. REED. 




Secretary. 







PIRATES 



v t 



/ 



v 



By FRANKLIN CLARKIN 



Sometimes those not fascinated by 
the recorded beginnings of family say 
lightly, "We fear if we went back far 
enough we might find an ancestor 
who was a robber or a pirate or was 
hanged !" Henry Clay Wood, briga- 
dier general U. S. A., is a gentleman 
unafraid. He writes to me that "in 
the course of years of collecting ge- 
nealogical information" he has "come 
to assume that Mistress Anne Bon- 
ney, pirate, was one of my ances- 
tors." He faces the likelihood with 
a gallantry and interest in the home- 
made picturesque which would do no 
harm to other ancestry-hunters to 
contemplate. For is not too much 
money and time and vanity wasted 
on a research magnificent toward a 
coronet or a crown? 

One old gentleman I knew had by 
twenty years trailing convinced him- 
self that he was a lineal descendant of 
King Canute. It was like looking 
up Night and Chaos as the ancestors 
of Nature. There's something more 
finite and human about looking up 
an eighteenth century lady picaroon. 

Anne Bouncy was a reality, stern 
and piquant, and the Groller Club's 
recent assembling of old pirate rec- 
ords has put General Wood in the 
way of recovering her past. 

Her father, an Irish attorney, had 
eloped from Cork to his Majesty's 
colonies in America — the Carolinas. 
There he properly married the girl 
who had taken this venture with him : 
and . they prospered raising tobacco. 
His station had been better than hers. 
It was he who required that the 
daughter Anne should be finished and 
mannered as well as could be. Anne 
was wilful, headstrong: she had little 



feminine company : her sports were 
boyish. When scarcely grown her 
wild beauty and grey eagle eyes called 
to the planters' sons for leagues 
around. But when at last she loved, 
she loved a sailor. He was English, 
rather casual, measurably good- 
humored and sociable — named Rack- 
ham. Her father's objections to their 
intimacy merely fixed her determina- 
tion to have him. She was an im- 
perative young person. 

More by her urging than Rack- 
ham's, they got away on a ship to 
New Providence in the Bahamas — 
"gathering place of the disestablished 
and discontented. Several accounts 
say they were married, and on one 
of the outlying islands built' a cabin. 
A child was born. 

Rackham roamed the seas. His 
visits home became more surrep- 
titious, more infrequent. Anne de- 
cided to make his ship the home. 
Putting on sailor clothes she shipped 
with him, learned navigation and sea- 
manship, familiarized herself with 
such cutlery as cutlasses. She was 
soon in fact accounted the most spirit- 
ed and fearless in the depredations. 

They were not buccaneers — they 
were picaroons. In Spanish "picaro" 
meant rogue. The difference between 
a picaroon and a buccaneer was the 
difference between chartered piracy 
against the King's enemies and un- 
licensed violence to gain property. 
Sir Henry Morgan was a buccaneer. 
In the last analysis the results might 
be the same, but a buccaneer operated 
because some one in brief authority 
had said "Go ahead and do it ;" while 
the other operated without making in- 
quiries first of any government, or of- 
ficial. 



THE READE RECORD 



The daughter of Bouncy the barris- 
ter is now Bouncy the Picaroon. 

She didn't swear like a pirate — but 
she cultivated asperities. "A murrain 
on you" was one of her expletives ; 
"By my troth" another. Another say- 
ing was, "Hast no more manners than 
the Prophet's ass?" 

Crews, who believed her a man, but 
with certain delicacies, would say of 
her, "He has been a gentleman." This 
impression she insisted on. "Dear 
me," she exclaimed once when a pris- 
oner was still grouchy over losing his 
money and liberty, "dear nae, I did but 
ask him a word and he turns upon me, 
showing the lowness of his breeding!" 
She held that blood told in bravery, 
in no-surrender courage, in taking 
your medicine in qualities of domina- 
tion. 

When passengers of a captive ship 
sat about, disconsolate, in slack, all-in 
attitude, she would ask them rise and 
pointing toward her most reckless 
companions admonish. "See you not 
that the gentry stand ?" 

Stevenson got "Treasure Island" 
and "The Merry Men" partly from 
Esquimeling, the earliest pirate to 
write an autobiography. But what 
hedonist would have the temerity to 
use the incredible story of Bouncy the 
Picaroon.' There are some things 
readers of fiction won't stand for. 
Even the movies would hesitate at a 
plot which included the seeming un- 
realities of the incident of Anne Bon- 
ner's meeting and association with 
Mary Read, the other lady picaroon. 

Mary Read was English. She was 
"among the crew of a ship bound to 
America" which Capt. Rackham had 
intercepted. To fill up vacancies made 
by casualties members of captive 
crews were often allowed to chose 
whether they would enlist for piracy. 
Mary, still disguised in male sailor 
clothes, elected to enlist — suited her 
spirit. Anne noted the youthful fig- 
ure, the smooth skin, the candid fore- 
head, the blue English eyes — and 
Anne welcomed the stripling who 



called herself Frank, into the "Breth- 
ren of the Coast." Capt. Rackham 
seconded his wife, but with some mis- 
givings. 

Shall we pick up Mary Read's story 
at this point? You get it best and 
probably straightest from records 
almost falling apart with age. Briefly 
then, Mary's mother in England had 
married a sailor. He sailed away : a 
boy child was born to the lone wife. 
There was the usual weary watching 
that sailor's wives go through : the 
dismal drifting into despair. The 
father never returned. The mother 
was sought by other men — but she 
could not know whether she was free 
to remarry. And her husband's 
mother was allowing her a crown a 
week for the boy. 

One day she hastened from the vil- 
lage where her husband's people lived 
to a far-away town. Another child 
was born to her. a girl child. Present- 
ly, the boy child died. 

The mother dressed the girl child 
in his clothes and after four years re- 
turned to the village. She was driven 
to the expedient of passing oft* the 
girl child for the boy child in order 
that the allowance from her husband's 
people should not stop. 

The girl child. Mary Read, thus was 
reared as a male. When the "grand- 
mother" died the allowance ended : 
and Mary at thirteen became page 
boy to a French lady living in the 
neighborhood. They travelled. At 
the old lady's death Mary was full 
grown : and being foot loose she 
joined the infantry of the Allies under 
the Duke of Marlborough, later trans- 
ferring to a regiment of horse, and 
becoming expert in sword work. 

She fought splendidly at Malpla- 
quet : was at the capture of Mons by 
the English. 

The fortune of war threw her into 
comradeship with a young Flemish 
soldier, and, falling in love with him, 
she revealed her sex, and both went 
to the regimental chaplain and were 
married publicly. Their comrades 



THE READE RECORD 



gave them presents of money. They 
obtained their release from the army 
and purchased an inn in Flanders, 
calling it "The Three Horse Shoes." 
In a few years she was left a widow. 
This must have been about 1717. 
Mary sold her inn, resumed trousers, 
went to Holland, and took service on 
a vessel for a trip to the West Indies. 
One account says : Their ship was 
taken by pirates and, she being En- 
glish, was asked to join the "Brethren 
of the Coast." 

Another account, written in 1720. 
by Capt. John Johnson, who claimed 
to have been himself a buccaneer and 
to have got the stories of others from 
themselves or the records of their 
trials, describes (1814, London edi- 
tion, now 101 years old) the capture 
of an English vessel, the Kingston, 
off the coast of Cuba (in 1718) by 
Captain Vane, the pirate, whose quar- 
termaster was Rackham, and the set- 
ting free of crew and passengers with 
the exception of two women who 
were detained "contrary to customary 
practice." This appears to be an his- 
torian's confusion of the circumstance 
that Mary Read was captured by the 
ship on which Capt. Rackham's wife, 
Anne, was a member of the crew. 
Anyway, Mary Read signed on, and 
one historian moralizes : 

"Probably her moral sense was not 
sufficiently instructed to lead her to 
make any remonstrance." 

How Rackham and his disguised 
wife Anne came to this point in their 
career is apparently veracipusly re- 
ported : The British governor of the 
Bahamas wanted to "get" Capt. Wil- 
liam Vane, picaroon, and sent out the 
armed ship Willing Hand. Mean- 
time Vane, near Cape Mast, stopped 
the rich-laden merchantman, the 
Kingston. Vane's quartermaster, John 
Rackham, was by vote selected to take 
command of the captive. "Calico 
Jack," he was called, because he al- 
ways wore gay calico jackets and 
breeches in the tropics. Coming upon 
a sloop, they impress her to take off 



the passengers and crew to the Ba- 
hamas — all except the one I Mary 
Read) who preferred to enlist. 

Capt. Vane, on his own vessel, 
sends to Capt. Rackham for some of 
the store of liquor found aboard the 
Kingston. Rackham sends a little. 
Vane comes aboard to expostulate 
over his stinginess. Rackham draws 
a pistol, orders Vane overside, and 
adds: 

"Then sheer off or I'll sink you." 

Vane's vessel, having been weak- 
ened by transferring guns to the 
Kingston, he is compelled to sheer off 
and go his way. 

Rackham steers for the Island of 
Princes, brings from the hold bales of 
silk, laces, hats and other treasures, 
including thirty silver watches, and 
piles it on deck to be taken ashore. 
On shore the crew gather round and 
shake dice to determine who shall 
have first choice of the booty — Anne 
and Mary looking on feverishly at 
silks and laces and feathers. How 
they avoided disclosing to each other 
their sex at that moment one doesn't 
understand. All are presently taking 
their shares, cramming the stuff into 
casks and burying the casks in the 
sand. 

When suddenly a sloop hoves (or 
is it heaves?) in sight. They learn 
from it that the governor at New 
Providence is pardoning all pirates 
who surrender. They give gifts to 
the skipper of the sloop, and ask him 
to tell the governor they wish to re- 
tire and will take his pardon. 

Instead of sending a pardon, the 
governor, urged by the passengers and 
owners of the ship Kingston which 
Rackham had, despatches an armed 
vessel to the Island of Princes! It 
surprises the picaroons in the midst 
of their lightering of booty from ship 
to shore and seizes the ship. The 
picaroons are left with only their 
ship's boats. 

On these, however, they set forth, 
soon capture a Spanish turtle sloop, 
proceed to New Providence, obtain 



THE R E A D E RECORD 







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Ann JJoimy s//u/ yittry Read c/mvieffft of Cfirctcy ?/<*/? %8 

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pardon from the governor in May, 
1719, sell their goods, and spend their 
money right merrily. 

Now comes one of the distressful 
discrepancies which the history-critic 
XXX would delight over, hut which 
the rest of us must deplore. W rites 
Captain Johnson ( 1724 edition), al- 
though later he disputes himself: 
Rackman, having a much larger share 
of money than the rest, his money 
held out longer : hut happening about 
the time to form an acquaintance with 
one Anne Bouncy, a married woman, 
he became very extravagant, and 
found it necessary, to avoid detection, 
to abscond with his mistress. For this 
purpose they plotted together to seize 
a sloop which lay in harbor, and 
Rackman drew some brisk young fel- 
lows into the conspiracy — pirates 
lately pardoned. 

Anne Bonney was allowed to go 
several times on board their sloop. 
She pretended to have business with 
John Hainan (the owner), but always 
went when he was ashore, for her true 
errand was to discover how many 
hands were aboard. She acquainted 
Rackman with every particular: and 



meeting at 12 midnight took a boat 
and rowed to the sloop. 

As soon as they got on board, Anne 
Bonney, having drawn a sword in one 
band and a pistol in the other, at- 
tended by one of the men, went 
straight to the cabin where the two 
fellows lay who belonged to the sloop. 
She declared if they moved she would 
blow their brains out. 

That John Hainan, himself was a 
pirate, was about to retire and build 
himself a home on an island off New 
Providence. Later he was strung up : 
hence the phrase, "hanged higher than 
Haman." A once literal phrase, now 
merely literary — unpopular in Wall 
Street. 

The surmise is that this was the 
cruise on which Mary Read, known as 
Frank, was thrown with Anne, known 
simply as Bonney. Yet you may read 
in another volume ( Tegg & Co., Glas- 
gow, 1853) that: 

"Mary with some others repaired 
to the Island of Providence to serve 
on privateers. Scarcely had the ship 
sailed when some of their crews mu- 
tinied and ran off with the ships. . . . 
It was however sufficiently ascer- 



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tained that both Mary Read and Anne 
Bonncy were among the bravest and 
most resolute fighters." 

Otherwise it is recorded that Capt. 
Rackham in the Hainan sloop sighted 
the ship of another picaroon, Dick 
Tumley, at anchor. While Tumley 
was ashore, Rackham, Bonney, 
"Frank," and the rest took Tumley's 
ship. 

Then Rackham stretched over to 
Bury Island, plundering all the sloops 
he met, strengthening his company 
with several additional hands. 

By one historian Anne is referred 
to as playing the part of Captain 
Rackham's cabin boy. Her interest in 
the other pantalooned picaroon deep- 
ens. 

The captain's cabin boy, Anne Bon- 
new fell in Love with "Frank" and re- 
vealed to "him" her sex. "Frank" 
then confided to her that she was a 
woman in disguise. 

Another contemporary version runs : 

Anne, supposing Mary to be a hand- 
some fellow, became greatly enamored 
of her, and disclosed her wishes and 
sex to Mary, who was thus con- 
strained to reveal her secret to Anne. 

Mary was strong and robust, yet 
modest, and her "conduct was direct- 
ed by virtuous principles." Anne was 
impetuous. What she wanted she 
took : a wispy, whirlwind of a woman. 
Mary captivated and Anne captured. 
Mary was more sentimental, "deeper 
in the affections, softer spoken. Both 
had felt the attraction of opposite 
natures. 

Now they pledge friendship, and 
agreed that, because of the jealousy 
of Anne's husband, the captain, they 
should tell him the truth. He had 
wondered that one so unlike his other 
roughnecks had enlisted as a pirate. 

By one recorder the following is 
declared to have been elicited from 
Mary by the captain at the time he 
was let into the secret : 

She liked piracy because the re- 
wards of piracy were only for the 
brave. She approved of death as the 



penalty for it. because otherwise "a 
crowd of rogues would be pillaging 
if no dangers were connected with 
it." 

By another recorder the following 
is set down as the testimony given at 
Mary's trial, before the Admiralty 
Assizes : 

"She said that as to hanging she 
deemed it no great hardship : for, 
were it not for that, every cowardly 
fellow would turn pirate and so in- 
fest the sea that men of courage must 
starve. Many, she said, now just 
bold enough to cheat widows and or- 
phans and oppress neighbors who are 
too poor to seek justice, would then 
rob at sea. Thus the ocean would be 
crowded with rogues like the land. 
Xii merchant would venture out. It 
is the fear of hanging alone which 
restrains thousands from piracy." 

Mary did not deny this testimony. 
The judge admired the point of view. 
With Anne, piracy was a protest 
against "the cruel usuage of her 
father and the disappointment of her 
fortune." She had the aristocratic 
notion that "the well born should be 
nourished by the fruits of lesser 
people." On her father's plantation 
black men had been slaves. Lillies 
must have ruck to root in. 

THE DUEL ON THE BEACH. 

There are two versions as to what 
happened to Mary. One is that a 
passenger captive was allowed to live 
and join Rackham's crew "because 
he was an artist." Another is that 
this young man was impressed into 
service "because he was a carpen- 
ter." All that matters now is that he 
was fair and wholesome and Mary's 
emotions were stirred up by him. She 
leaned against the mast "and thrilled 
when he passed." So when, under 
the rules of the ship, a quarrel be- 
tween him and another sailor was to 
be settled ashore by sword, she, 
knowing what swordmanship she had 
learned in the army in Flanders, 



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flung an insult at the challenger and 
insisted that her insult should be 
wiped out before the carpenter. 

After a few passes Mary ran him 
through and he lay dead at her feet. 

This led to explanations between 
her and the comely carpenter. By 
their vows to each other in the bow 
of the ship, one midnight, under the 
Southern Cross, they solemnized their 
own marriage. 

Anne was somewhat shocked! 

One fell day Captain Rackman, 
needing recruits, put into Negril Bay, 
West Indies, and invited the crew of 
a French fisher boat aboard. He was 
regaling them with rum punch when 
a British pirate chaser appeared. 
Rackman slipped anchor and made 
sail with all nine fishermen abroad. 
The warship raked the pirate with 
solid shot. The captain and his men 
went below. Only his wife, Anne 
Bouncy, and her messmate, Mary 
Read, and one of the crew ( perhaps 
the gentle carpenter) stayed on deck 
to continue resistance. 

Here historians agree. All were 
tried at Admiralty Assizes at Port 
Royal, Jamaica ; all were sentenced 
to be hanged upon Gallows Point. 
All were hanged — except Anne and 
Mary. They were reprieved: Anne 
because she was a woman and be- 
cause of "the influence of gentlemen 
who had known her in her innocent 
youth." Mary because she would 
soon become a mother. Mary died 
in prison before the child came. Anne 
was set free. But as to what after- 
ward became of her or of the child 
she had left at the Bahamas the sev- 
eral historians agree at last in this — 
they never could learn. 

HARD LUCK, INDEED 

A young man in Chicago had lost his aunt- 
He seemed so dejected thereby that a friend, 
aware of the true situation, asked : 

"Why do you look so sad? You never 
appeared to care much for the old lady." 

" I didn't," said the youth, dolefully, "but I 
was the means of keeping her in a lunatii 
asylum for a number of years. She has left 
me all her money, and now I have got to prove 
that she was of sound mind." — Case & Com'nt 



DEFINITIONS 

A class in a Boston school being asked 
the following questions, answered thus: 

Question. — What is the motto of the 
United States ? 

Answer. — Safety first ! 

Q. — What is an octogenarian ? 

A. — A fish with eight legs (octopus?) 

Another answer. — A person who lives 
only on vegetables (vegetarian ?). 

ESSAY ON KING SOLOMON 

A little girl in a neighboring town 
tells the world what she knows about 
King Solomon in the following essay : 

King Solomon was a man who lived 
ever so many years ago, and in the 
country in which he governed was the 
whole push. He was an awful wise 
man, and one day two women came 
to him, each one holding on to the leg 
of a baby, and nearly pulling it in two, 
and both claiming it, and King Solo- 
mon wasn't feeling right good, and he 
said : "Why couldn't the brat been 
twins and stopped all this bother?" 
And then he called for his sword and 
was going to chop the brat in two and 
give each one a piece of it, when the 
one who was the real mother said, 
"Stop, Solomon, stay thy hand, let the 
old hog have it. If I can't have a 
whole baby I don't want any." Then 
Solomon told her to take the baby and 
go home and wash its face, for he 
knew it washers, and he told the other 
woman to go chase herself. King 
Solomon built Solomon's temple and 
was the father of all the Masons. He 
had 700 wives and 200 lady friends, 
and that is why there are so many 
Masons in the world. — La Fayette 
Bulletin, La Fayette Chapter, No. 2, 
Royal Arch Masons, Chicago. 



THE READE RECORD 



Gbc "Keafce IRccorfc 



Published by 

THE READE SOCIETY 

For Genealogical Research 




Officers Elected, October 31, 1916 

President 
l'i g. Gen. Philip Reade. • ; Boston 
U. S. A. Ke irtd 

Vice Presidents 

I. l\ ! R» ID New York 

Joshua I . ( RANE Taunton 

Treasurer 

ChaRLI - F. Rl id Brookline 

Secretary 

ALANSON II. Kill' Wellesley Hills 

Genealogist 
i teoRGI S. Ste'waR-1 Bedford 



Annual Meetings 

Thirteen annual meetings of the Keade 
Society have been held in Massachusetts, as 
follows ; 

Taunton, July 14 1904. 

Boston, l (ctober 12, 1905. 

South Weymouth, September 27. 1906. 

\\ , -i Bridgewater, < ictober 17, 1907. 

Boston, i >> tobei 28, 1908. 

Boston, i Ictober 28, 1909. 

Lexington, I ictober 28, 1910. 

South Weymouth. October 27, 1911. 

Burlington, ' (ctober 16. 1912. 

Boston, < ictober 30, 1913. 

Boston, i ictober 22, 1 ; 14. 

Boston, October 28, 1915. 

Boston, October 31. 1916. 

YOU ARE INVITED TO JOIN 
Membership fees, one dollar per year, or 
$10 for a Life Membership, exempt from future 
dues, should be sent to CHARLES F. READ, 
Treasurer, I >ld State House, Boston, Mass. 



THE SECRETARY SAYS: 

— That with " 700 wives and 200 lady friends," 
as stated in the little girl's essay in another 
column, no doubt furious war raged among 
them(which is his excuse for including the item 
in this "War Number" of the Record). So 
that King Solomon was often glad to put on 
his hat and go to the Lodge. Thus another 
mystery has been solved— why King Solomon 
instituted Freemasonrj 

—That an item omitted from the last Record 
is herein noted : that on the 24th of September 
1915, there was born to Harold Fulli- k Rekd 
of Brookline, Mass., and SARA (Smith) REED, 
his wife, a son and heir, Haiold Fuller Reedjr, 
a grandson of the Secretary, which he hopes 
will continue with honor the line of 
THOMAS READ of Colchester, England, 1665, 
and of Thomas Ream of Sudbury .Mass . 1701, 
whese wills of those dates were published m 
the Reade Record No. VII. 
—That to Harold C. Read of Brookline. 
Mass. (member of the Keade Society) and his 
„ife Margarei ISi udder) Read was born 
M.m li 31st, 1917, a son and heir AV. rtScu 

a grandson of our Treasurer L'harU* I 
Read, and descendant of Thomas READ of 
Chelmsford, Mass.. .> soldier in Kino Phillips 
War, 1676. of whom account was published in 
the Keade Record No. V. 

["hat he hopes others of our members will 
report births ot additional Inns ' t the exti n 
sue Keade Family. The old Colonial stock 
should not be allowed to d e out. 

I hat if some of our members view askai" e 
oui publii ation of the activities of some of thi 
Reade Family in the way of piracy, etc.. n 
>h<>uld be sai< that of so many others account 
has been made of virtue and good deeds, that 
to prevent family puttiness the Secretary thinks 
it well at tirms to show up somewhat of its 
seamy side. And. strange to say, this is gen- 
etally the more romantic and inteiesting. 

—That if the genealogical scheme outlined in 
the "Summons and Statement " Ip. 9l can be 
successfully carried out, it will pro\e one of 
the most valuable genealogical works under 
taken in behalf of any family. 
— That if any member of the Keade Family 
knowing that what he or she possesses in this 
world cannot be taken with them into the 
next, and so chooses to becpieath some small 
fraction thereof in their will to the permanent 
fund of the Keade Society, the same shall fail 
not of the reward that comes to the doer of 
good deeds. 

— That, with the hundreds if not thousands of 
those bearing the Keade name (however spelled I 
in all this vast country, descendants most of 
them of the oid Colonial«tock, it is surpiising 
to find so many not able or not willing to pay 
the trifling sum of ( ink Dollar a year to the 
Reade Society to aid in its genealogical work. 



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H Summons 

Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. 

TO ALL Members of the Rede- 
Reed-Read-Reade-Reid-Ried Fam- 
ily, throughout the world, whereso- 
ever they chance to be, Greeting: 

Know ye, that, whereas the Reade 
Society now stationed at Boston. 
Massachusetts. United States of America, 
and having for its object genealog- 
ical research with regard to the an- 
cestral lines of the said family ; and 
whereas it has been in existence the 
past thirteen years or more and is 
duly incorporated under the laws of 
the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 
authorized to carry on its said work, 
and to own real estate, adapt a seal, 
insignia and arms for its use and 
that of its members; and whereas 
the said society has nut now. nor 
ever has had any salaried or paid 
officials; and whereas they have given 
freely of their time and efforts and 
means to accomplish the good work 
of the said society, and the publica- 
tion of the "Reade Record," the 
official organ of the said Society ; and 
whereas it is now deemed desirable 
that the said work should be ex- 
tended and more largely supported by 
the members of the said Family : 
Therefore you, being adjudged one 
of the same, are Hereby Summoned 
to read the following Statement con- 
cerning the work of the said Reade 
Society and to appear at its bar and 
give it your reasonable aid, or to ren- 
der such good and sufficient reason 
as may excuse you therefrom. 

Hereof fail not to take due notice 
and govern yourself accordingly. 

In witness whereof I have set my 

hand & seal this first day of June. 1917. 

Philip Reade, President [seal] 

Attest : 

Charles F. Read, treasurer 
Alanson H. Keed. Secretary 



STATEMENT 

Realizing that the genealogies of 
the Reade Family, however the name 
may be spelled ) already in print were 
not only few in number but con- 
tained many gross errors, an associa- 
tion was formed some thirteen years 
or more ago to investigate the rec- 
ords in America and in England re- 
garding the early immigrants of the 
name, to correct the many mis-state- 
ments already in print, and to add 
further information, making it avail- 
able to the public. The results have 
been published in the "Reade Rec- 
ord," the official organ of the Reade 
Society, and have proved so valu- 
able that no genealogist who does not 
consult these papers can be sure of 
obtaining correct Reade ancestral 
lines. To some limited extent the 
Reade Society has also accumulated 
and preserved genealogical material 
contributed by its members, books, 
photos, etc. 

Put it is evident that a much larger 
and more important work should be 
done. But the limited number of 
members of the Society, never over 
two hundred, has not furnished the 
funds with which to carry on such 
a work — even though the Society has 
not now, nor ever has had, any paid 
officials. Its officers have not only 
contributed their time and efforts, but 
as well have stood in the breach when 
financial needs made it necessary. 
However, owing to the present great 
war. investigations among the Eng- 
lish records are practically ended. 
Put another field of operation is open 
at home, the working of which is 
equally important, and perhaps in the 
distant future will be held to have 
hern far more so. Briefly stated, it 
i> this: America is a vast continent 
and its means of communication and 
transportation so extensive that a res- 
ident in one section may, with his 
family, remove to another, hundreds 
and perhaps thousands of miles dis- 
tant and between which places there 



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is little or no connection. In earlier 
days, when a resident of a country 
moved into the next, or from one 
state to an adjoining one, there were 
generally some, lines of information 
in the records, registry of deeds, pro- 
hates of wills, etc., that gave a clue 
to the change made, and so the de- 
scendants of the mover could, from 
the new home, still trace their an- 
cestral lines hack to the original im- 
migrant. But this is becoming every 
year more and more difficult, and in 
a generation or two may be impos- 
sible, unless some written record is 
left by those of the present time for 
those who are to come in later years. 
Many cannot remember the names of 
their grandparents, and fewer still 
know the names of their great grand- 
parents. And what is equally im- 
portant, know in what place, town, 
county or state these latter lived 
and died. Those of the Reade name 
who have moved to far distant locali- 
ties and then- settled, have founded 
a new branch of the family. When, at 
some later date, their grandchildren 
or great-grandchildren, inspired with 
the wish to know the history of their 
forefathers and the part they played 
in the world, and whence they came, 
and why they came across the broad 
ocean in pioneer days to find a home 
in America — that information will be 
a sealed book to them because those of 
the present day have been too negli- 
gent, careless or selfish to lake the 
trouble to leave a record behind them. 
The information that dies with them 
is lost forever. It is a proud thing 
to be able to substantiate a claim of 
descent from the Colonial and Revo- 
lutionary stock, and the same, as the 
years go by, will be held of the Civil 
War heroes of either side. 

But the reader may say, "I have 
no interest in genealogy and all such 
matters." If you are young that is 
in general a natural feeling, for when 
one is young the affairs of the pres- 
ent life are urgent and the future, 
not the past, engaged the youthful 



mind. But as the wheels of life turn 
more slowly, the elder ones review 
the past to judge of the future, and 
many a question presents itself for 
answer. 

And of these a natural one con- 
cerns the ancestral lines by which we 
came out of the past into the present. 
And often so intense becomes the de- 
sire to know, that time and mone) 
have been spent without stint, to learn 
what might have been left of record 
in a few lines — and the search proved 
all in vain! The young were too 
busy and too heedless to ask of their 
elders what they could easily tell — 
and make written note of it. The 
elders were too indifferent, negligent 
or not of sufficient intellectual caliber 
to realize the importance of keeping 
a written record, and so all their in- 
formation died with them. And thus 
in later years the missing links can- 
not be found. 

You deride genealogy, perhaps? 
Hut take note that no man ever be- 
came famous without the world's 
making all possible effort to learn 
who his ancestors were. The world 
is not content to eat of the fruit of 
tin' tree alone. It wishes to know 
bow that tree grew such fruit and 
why and who planted and cared for 
it. For the world would like to see 
others gri urn like it ! 

There is many a famous man who 
came of a family previously obscure, 
winch had no reason to expect that 
from its ranks so great a man would 
arise. And so no one may sneer at 
an obscure family that takes interest 
and pride in keeping a correct an- 
cestral record. Who can foretell it 
may not be the next family called 
upon to furnish an immortal man of 
history ? 

Why, in the light of the foregoing, 
if our readers are yet unconvinced 
that there is pleasure and value in a 
reasonable use of genealogy, may we 
not raise another and more personal 
question? Is it not a selfish view of 
the use of life that you live only for 



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yourself and the present and refuse 
to take the trouble to make a record 
to be passed down to those who will 
constitute the world in future days 
to come ? 

And this brings us to the statement 
of the objects that the Reade Society 
hopes to attain with your aid. Brief- 
ly stated, they are — 

First — That it shall send to every 
one of the Reade name ( however 
spelled) a genealogical form, such as 
is herewith sent to you ; to be filled 
out as fully as may be possible; espe- 
cially with reference to the place 
from which you or your ancestors 
came to your present place of perma- 
nent residence, together with all such 
other genealogical information as you 
may see fit to give. 

And further, that you send for 
other forms and place them in the 
hands of others of the Reade name 
or others who may be interested in 
this work. 

In this way the Reade Society 
hopes to reach every one of the 
Reade name (however spelled) and 
get a report from them. 

It is planned to bind all these re- 
ports in volumes, indexed and put in 
shape for ready reference, and where 
convenient, photos may be attached 
as well of persons, old records, home- 
steads, etc. All these will be depos- 
ited with the "Nezv England Historic 
Genealogical Society," which is 
headquarters for all such matters. 
The Society occupies and owns a new 
building, complete with every conve- 
nience, and as absolutely fireproof as 
human ingenuity and money can 
make it. It has a magnificent library 
of historical and genealogical works, 
books, maps, and data of every kind. 
And its membership is open to all 
the world at small cost, and a free 
use as well of its books to all vis- 
itors. Hence the Reade Reports 
placed with a permanent institution 
of this kind will provide an invalu- 
able means of information to those 



interested in the Reade ancestral 
lines, both now and in the days to 
come. 

And all this can be done if you 
will "only da your bit" in the matter 

If this work is delayed it will soon 
be too late. 

Second — While, as stated above, the 
Society has no paid officials, yet it 
cannot be said to have no expenses. 
The cost of such original investiga- 
tion as can be carried on at present, 
the publishing of the "Reade Record," 
the printing of these genealogical re- 
ports, of the membership certificates, 
office materials, envelopes, postage 
stamps, and similar expenses require 
a much larger membership than the 
Society now has. The dues have been 
placed at the small amount of $1.00 
per year for the annual members, and 
for life membership, $10.00, with ex- 
emption from all future dues. For 
the certificate of membership with 
coat of arms in colors, an additional 
charge of 50 cents is made. 

All funds received from life mem- 
bership have been placed in the sav- 
ings bank, and only the interest used 
for the work of the Society. 

In Conclusion 
It is possible to carry out the sug- 
gestions made above if each and every 
member of the extensive Reade Fam- 
ily will do his or her part. 

Will You Do Yours? 
If so, fill out the blank Report here- 
with sent you, as completely as pos- 
sible, and send it in to the Reade So- 
ciety with your fee of $1 (if you are 
not already a member) for mem- 
bership fee and 50 cents for certifi- 
cate. Then interest yourself in the 
work of the Society and help increase 
its membership. 

You will never regret it. 

Alanson H. Reed, 

Secretary. 



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THE CIVIL WAR-- FIFTY-ODD YEARS AGO 

By ALANSON H. REED 

Lieut. Charles W. Reap of rHE Confederate Navy Raids the 

Shipping off the Coast of New England 



In tlu- General Navy Register note 
is made of Charles W. Read. Acting 
Midshipman. 20th Sept.. 1856; Mid- 
shipman, 15th June, 1860: Resigned, 
4th February, 1861. This is taken to 
refer to the' Lieut. Charles W. Read, 
C.S.X.. the subject of this sketch. I Le 
was from the state of Mississippi, and 
evidently considered his firsl alle 
giance due to his state ratlin- than to 
the Federal Government. From Sep 
tember, 1862. to January. 1863, the 
I onfererate Government was fitting 
out at Fort Morgan in Mobile. Via . 
the cruiser Florida, J. N. Maffitt, < om 
mander, to raid the commerce of the 
Union Government. An extract from 
his journal says: November 4th 
i 1862) Lieut. C. W. Read, the last 
Lieutenant 1 personally applied for. 
joined: this officer acquired reputation 
for gunnery, coolness and determina 
tion at the battle of New ( >rleans. 
When his commander, T. B. Huger, 
was fatally wounded, he continued to 
gallant!) fight the McRae [againsl 
Commander Farragut's fleet] until she 
was riddled and unfit for service. 

The Florida left Mobile January 16, 
1863 \n extract from Commander 
Moffitt's journal says: "My orders are 
to assail their [the enemy's] commerce 
onlv. that the mercantile part of the 
Northern community, who so earnest- 
ly sustain the war by liberal contribu- 
tions, may not fatten on its progress 
but feel all its misfortunes. . . . When 
merchant ships are destroyed on the 
high seas individuality suffers and the 
shoe pinches in the right direction. 
All the merchants of New York and 
Boston, who have by their splendid 
traders become princes in wealth, and 
puffy with patriotic zeal for the sub- 
jugation of the South will soon cry 
with a loud voice, peace, peace: we 
are becoming ruined and the country 
damned." 



May 6th, off the coast of Brazil the 
Florida "at 9.45 A.M. hailed the 
Yankee brig Clarence, from Rio to 
Baltimore, with a cargo of coffee and 
made her a prize." 

Lieut. Read proposed "to take the 
brig which we have just captured and 
with a crew of twenty men to proceed 
to Hampton Roads and cut out a gun 
boat or steamer of the enemy. As I 
would be in possession of the brig's 
papers and as the crew would not be 
large enough to excite suspicion, there 
can be no doubt of my passing Fort- 
ress Monroe successfully. Once in 
the Roads I would be prepared to avail 
in ., elf of any circumstance which 
might present for gaining the deck of 
an enemv's vessel. If it would be 
found impossible to board a gun boat 
or merchant steamer it would be pos- 
sible n> toe the shipping at Baltimore." 
Lieut. Read's offer was accepted, and 
ond Assistant E. H. Brown and 
twenty men, and one howitzer with 
ammunition and equipment were put 
aboard the brig Clarence, and that 
same day he started upon his dan- 
gerous enterprise. What followed is 
told in his own words in a report sub- 
sequently made to the Confederate 
Government. 

"In obedience to orders I shaped my 
course for the Capes of the Chesa- 
peke. <>ff the Wind Islands I chased 
several vessels, but failed to overhaul 
them on account of the inferior sad 
ing qualities of the Clarence. On the 
6th of Tune . . . fell in with, cap- 
tured and burned the bark Windward 
| Whistling Wind] from Philadelphia 
to New Orleans loaded with coal . . . 
On the 7th of June captured the 
schooner Alfred H. Partridge from 
New York to Metamoras. She was 
loaded with arms and clothing for our 
citizens in Texas. I took the captain's 
bond for the sum of $5000 for the 



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delivery of the cargo to loyal citizens 
in the Confederate states. On June 
9th . . . captured and burned the brig 
Mary Alvina from Boston to New 
Orleans. . . . From the prisoners 
and papers of transports Windward 
and Mary Alvina I derived such in- 
formation as convinced me it was im- 
possible to carry out the instructions 
of Commander Maffitt. No vessels 
were allowed to go into Hampton 
Roads unless they had supplies for the 
U.S. Government and then were close- 
ly watched. The vessels lying at the 
wharf above Fortress Monroe were 
guarded by a gunboat, and there were 
sentries on the wharf. Just outside 
the fort there were two boarding 
steamers. ... I then determined to 
cruise along the coast and try to in- 
tercept a transport for Fortress Mon- 
roe and with her to endeavor to carry 
out the orders of Commander Maffitt 
and in the meantime to do all possible 
injury to the enemy's commerce. On 
the morning of the 12th of June . . . 
captured the bark Tacony in ballast 



from Port Royal, S. C, to Philadel- 
phia. As soon as we had possession 
of her, a schooner was discovered 
which we stood to intercept. At 8 
A.M. we brought to the schooner. She 
proved to be the schooner M. A. 
Schindler in ballast from Port Royal, 
S. C, to Philadelphia. The bark Ta- 
comy being a better sailor than the 
Clarence I determined to burn the 
latter vessel and take the bark. While 
the howitzer, etc., was being trans- 
ferred from the Clarence to the Ta- 
comy, a schooner was discovered com- 
ing down before the wind. Passing 
near the Clarence a wooden gun was 
pointed at her and she was command- 
ed to heave to, which she did imme- 
diately. She was found to be the 
schooner Kate Stewart from Key 
West to Philadelphia. As we were 
now rather short of provisions and 
had over fifty prisoners I determined 
to board the schooner Kate Stewart 
and make a cartel of her." So he 
placed his prisoners aboard of her and 
sent them ashore. The bus Clarence 




The Bark Tacony to which Lieut. Keed transferred his flag after burning the brig Clarence. 

The second burning vessel is a prize. 
(From a drawiug mad, ' ■■■'.) (By permission of B6ston Globe, copyright, 1913.) 



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and schooner Schindler were then set 
on fire." Soon after he captured the 
brig Arabella, which he boarded on 
June 15th. captured and burned the 
brig Umpire, June 20th . . . captured 
the ship Isaac Webb : same day burned 
the fishing schooner Micawber ; June 
21, captured and burned the clipper 
ship Byzantium and the bark Good- 
speed. ' June 22 captured the fishing 
schooners MareHzo Florence, E. Ann, 
Robert Choate and Ripple. "The 
Florence being an old vessel I bonded 
her and placed seventy-five prisoners 
on her. The other schooners were 
burned. On June 23d captured and 
burned the fishing schooners Ada and 
Wanderer. On June 24th . . . cap- 
tured the ship Shatemuc from Liver- 
pool to Boston with a large number of 
emigrants. I bonded her for $150,000. 
On'the night of June 24th, captured 
the fishing schooner Archer. 

As there were now a number of the 
enemy's gunboats in search of the 
Taconv and our howitzer ammunition 
being all expended. I concluded to 
destroy the Taconv, and with the 
schooner Archer to proceed along the 
coast with the view of burning the 
shipping in some exposed harbor, or 
of cutting out a steamer. Accord- 
inglv, on the morning of the 25th of 
Tune, we set fire to the Tacony and 
with the Archer stood in for the coast. 
On the morning of the 26th of June 
we made Portland Light. Off Port- 
land I picked up two fishermen, who 
taking us for a pleasure party, willing- 
ly consented to pilot us into Portland. 
From the fishermen I learned that the 
revenue cutter Caleb Cushing was 
in the harbor of Portland and the 
passenger steamer to New York — a 
staunch, swift propeller — would re- 
main in Portland during the night. I 
at once determined to enter the harbor, 
and at night to quietly seize the cutter 
and steamer. 

At sunset we entered the harbor and 
anchored in full view of the shipping. 
I explained to my officers what I ex- 



pected to do after dark. My engin- 
eer, Mr. Brown, expressed his doubts 
as to his ability to start the engines of 
the steamer proposed to be captured 
without the assistance of another en- 
gineer. I felt confident that Mr. 
Brown would do his utmost to per- 
form the duty required of him, but as 
the nights were very short it was evi- 
dent that if we failed to get the steam- 
er under way, after waiting to get up 
steam, we could not get clear of the 
forts before we were discovered. As 
the wind was blowing moderately out 
of the harbor, 1 then decided to cap- 
ture the cutter, and after getting from 
under the forts to return and fire the 
shipping. At 1.30 A.M. we boarded 
the cutter Caleb Cushing and captured 
her, without noise or resistance. As 
the cable could not be slipped, it wit- 
two o'clock before we got under way. 
The wind was now very light, the tide 
was running in. and before we could 
get from under the guns of the fort 
day dawned. 

At 10 A.M. when about twenty 
miles off the harbor, two large steam- 
ers and three tugs were discovered 
coming out of Portland. The cutter 
was cleared for action, and as soon as 
the leading steamer was in range we 
opened fire upon her. After firing five 
rounds from the pivot gun I was mor- 
tified to find that all projectiles for 
that gun were expended. From the 
movements of the enemy's steamers it 
was evident that they intended to at- 
tack us simultaneously on each side 
and endeavor to clear our deck with 
their sharpshooters. It was plain that 
we could offer but an ineffectual re- 
sistance, and therefore I directed the 
cutter to be set on fire and the crew 
to take to the boats. At 11.30 I sur- 
rendered myself and crew to the 
steamer Forrest City. At 12 o'clock 
the cutter blew up. . . . — Very re- 
spectfully, vour obedient servant, 
C. W. Read, 
Second Lieutenant, C. S. Navy. 
June 27, 1863. 



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REPORT OF U.S. COLLECTOR 
OF CUSTOMS. PORTLAND. ME. 

At about 1 o'clock A.M., after the 
moon had set, the watch on deck, 
hearing boats approaching, at once 
called Lieutenant Davenport, but as 
the watch returned on deck, he found 
armed men pouring over each side 
of the cutter, variously estimated at 
from twenty-five to forty men. They 
instantly seized the watch on deck, 
presented revolvers to their heads, and 
threatened to shoot them if they spoke 
or made any noise. The watch were 
put in irons and sent below, and. the 
main hatch being open, a part of the 
attacking party rushed below and 
threatened to shoot the men asleep in 
their hammocks or just awakening if 
they spoke. The men below were then 
ironed and ordered not to look on 
deck at the peril of their lives. Our 
men seized Lieutenant Davenport as 
he attempted to come out of the cabin 
at the call of the watch and bore him 
below in the cabin and ironed him. or- 
dering him to keep quiet as a prisoner. 

Then they loosed her sails, hove up 
her anchor, and made sail on her ; but 
as the wind was light, put two boats 
ahead with their own men to tow her. 
They towed her out of the northern 
passage to our harbor known as Hus- 
sey's Sound (which I regret to say is 
entirely unprotected by any fortifica- 
tion or battery) and at daylight she 
was seen about five miles off standing 
to sea. . . . 

I at once sent messengers to Fort 
Preble for guns and men of the 
Seventeenth Regulars, to be ready for 
a steamer that I would have at the 
port wharf; also sent messenger to 
Camp Lincoln, to Colonel Mason of 
the Seventh Maine Volunteers for 
men. To both of these requests the 
responses were promptly made. . . . 
I at once chartered the Forrest City, 
a 700-ton side-wheeler of the Boston 
Line, . . . [which took on board the 



Regulars]. Finding that . . . the 
steamer Chesapeake (propeller) . . . 
was getting up steam, I put Colonel 
Mason and the largest portion of his 
command on board of her. she having 
obtained two brass six-pounders from 
the state arsenal. She had also about 
fifty citizen volunteers of all ages and 
colors, who armed themselves and re- 
paired on board. ... In fifty min- 
utes after I had learned of the capture 
of the cutter three steamers had left 
the wharf to overhaul her. . . . The 
cutter was about ten miles off, stand- 
ing to westward and beating out of 
Casco Bay. The Forrest City first 
overhauled the cutter, when, without 
heaving to. she opened fire on the 
steamer with her 32-pound gun, firing 
four round shot at her. but without 
hitting her. She (the steamer) hove 
to then for the Chesapeake, and after 
conferring together, it was deemed 
best for the Chesapeake, as she was a 
propeller and had taken [on] board 
about fifty bales of cotton for barri- 
cades, to run the cutter down. She 
accordingly put on all steam and stood 
for her. being something over one 
mile off. The schooner tacked and 
gave the Chesapeake three or four 
shots, the last being shrapnel, part of 
which passed over the steamer. See- 
ing three steamers bearing down for 
her, the officer in command went into 
the cabin and informed Lieutenant 
Davenport that he and his men must 
leave the vessel as they had deter- 
mined to abandon her and set her on 
fire. One of the cutter's boats was 
appropriated for her men, and they all 
got in, twenty in number, including 
boys, still with handcuffs on, but at 
the request of the crew the keys of the 
handcuffs were thrown into the boat, 
and they released themselves and 
pulled away from the schooner. The 
captors then manned two other boats, 
having set fire to the schooner fore 
and aft, and left her. She was soon 
in flames and blew up about 2 P.M., 
sinking at once. These two boats 



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were overhauled by the Forest City 
and the parties made prisoners by the 
Seventeenth Regulars. The other boat 
with the cutter's crew was picked up 
by the Chesapeake. A fisherman, as 
prisoner, was among those on board 
the Forest City, and from him they 
learned that this party had a schooner 
standing off in company. The steamer 
ran a few miles out to sea, and over- 
hauled the schooner, when on firing 
one gun across her bows, she hove to 
and surrendered with three men on 
board. She proved to be the Archer 
with the gun, provisions, etc., of the 
Tacony. Some of the men state it was 
their intention to have taken the cutter 
out and exchange the vessels, giving 
the crew the Archer to return in. 

As the cutter had a 32-pound gun 
and 12-pound brass Dalgren on a 
pivot forward, she would have been a 
dangerous vessel. Fortunately the 
captors of the cutter could find but 
eight of her ninety round shot, or they 
say they should have fought longer, 
but the < hesapeake, under full -tram. 
would have run her down 1 think and 
sunk her. 

The Archer I have taken into the 
wharf, stripped her sails and put her 
armament, stores, etc.. into the old 
Custom House. . . . She is about 
ninety tons burden and has some of 
her salt for fishing still on board. . . . 
Jedediah Jewett, Collector. 

Report of Lieut. J. H. Merryma-c 
U. S. Revenue Service 

We [on the Forest City] now' ob- 
served a crowded boat leaving her, 
which proved to contain Lieutenant 
1 lavenport and his crew, who were 
picked up bv the Chesapeake. 

A few moments later two more 
boats left her, and instantly smoke and 
flames were seen bursting from her 
wardroom and cabin companionways. 
By aid of my glasses I perceived that 
her decks were deserted and that the 
dishing was doomed to destruction. 



Expecting every moment to see her 
blown to atoms, for I had learned that 
her magazine contained 500 pounds of 
powder, I advised Captain Liscomb to 
bear away for the boats containing the 
pirates, and run them down. As we 
neared them, however, they fran- 
tically displayed white handkerchiefs 
and Masonic signs, and the steamer 
was therefore steered clear of them 
and stopped. They were ordered on 
board, and as they came up the side 
were seized by the soldiers and tied. 
The Commander, C. W. Read, de- 
claring himself a lieutenant in the 
Confederate Navy, handed me his side 
arms and claimed to be a prisoner of 
war. After questioning him a few 
minutes, I turned him over to Captain 
[Nathaniel] Prime of the Seventeenth 
Regulars, in command of the soldiers, 
and he was placed under guard with 
his crew. ... At 1.48 P.M. the cut- 
ter blew up with a fearful explosion 
and disappeared from our view. At 
2 P.M. we overhauled the Archer and 
firing a shot across her bow hove her 
to. I sent Lieutenant Richardson on 
board to take charge, and taking her 
in tow brought her into this harbor. 
U. S. Official Records of the Union 
and Confederate Navies in the Wai 
of the Rebellion. 



NO MIDDLE NAVIES THEN 

It is an exception nowadays to come across 
a person with only one Christian name. High 
or low can have a string of middle names if 
they so desire, although the majority stick to 
but two Christian names. 

In the sixteenth century, however, middle 
names were illegal in England, and, in accord- 
ance with the strictness of that period, no in- 
fraction of the law was admitted. 

Rovalty were the only privileged persons in 
this respect. If they really wished to possess 
a middle name the law relaxed its seventy and 
granted their request ; but woe to the ordinary 
commoner who exercised his own authority 
and gave unto himself more than two appella- 
tions. The whipping post was his punishment 
for the first offense. And should his boastful- 
ness exceed his temerity a more lasting punish- 
ment corrected his second. lapse— the medieval 
custom of removal of "his thumbs or ears. 

— Stray Stories. 



THE READE RECORD 



17 



©t>ituar\> 



Edgar S. Reade 
A member of the Reade Society died re- 
cently at his home, 312 Cooper Street, Ot- 
tawa, Canada. 



Mrs. Mary Jane Read 
The mother of Mrs. Helen Read Merriam 
of Syracuse, X.Y., an esteemed member of 
the keade Society, died at the residence of 
her daughter, 825 West Genesee Street. 
March. 1915. Mrs. Read was born in Mc- 
Donough, N.Y., July 27, 1835, daughter of 
Jacob Permenter and Jane (Jenkins) Hill. 
She married September. 1858, Bruce Ben- 
jamin Read, and resided on the old Read 
Homestead in Smithfield, N.Y. About 
1864 he removed to Greene and engaged 
in mercantile business. He held many pub- 
lic offices, postmaster. Justice of the Peace, 
etc. They had one son, Hiram Read, who 
died young, and one daughter, Helen Read, 
who married Evan B. Merriam. He was 
born in Smithfield. N.Y., was a graduate 
of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, 
and practiced in Binghampton, N.Y. ; in 
business fifteen years in Niagara Falls, N.Y. 
Secretary to Collector of Port of New 
York during Cleveland's administration, 
and last with Charles Hubbard Son & Co., 
of Syracuse. N.Y. Member of the Sons of 
the American Revolution, and New York 
State Pharmaceutical Association. A man 
of fine personality and character. 



Dr. Joshua W. Read 
Dr. Joshua Ware Read, a Life Member 
of the Reade Society and forty-seven years 
resident of Newark, N.J., died at his home, 
283 Ridge Street, April 17, 1917, in his 
eightieth year. He was born in West Ba- 
tavia, New York, October 17, 1837, son of 
Nathaniel and Hannah I Ware) Read. He 
was a descendant of Thomas Read, who 
came from Colchester, Essex Co., England, 
and settled in Sudbury, Mass., in 1654. 

Joshua Ware Read was graduated from 
the New York State Normal School in 
1861, and principal of the Union School at 
Peekskill, N.Y., four years. Graduated 
from the Bellevue Hospital Medical Col- 
lege in the Class of 1867. Practiced in 
Bloomington, 111., from then until 1870, 
when he moved to Newark, N.J. Formerly 
a member of the Board of Education, a 
coroner and surgeon of the Police Depart- 
ment ; President of the School Board ; Sec- 
retary, Historian and Librarian of the Es- 
sex Co. Medical Society, etc. About three 
years ago Dr. Read retired, preceding that 
time having lived for more than forty 
years at 82 Park Place. He is survived by 
bis wife and two children. Mary A. Jackson 
of East Orange, and James P. Read of 
Newark. 



Mrs. Anna Reed Wilkinson 
Mrs. Anna Reed Wilkinson, a member of 
the Reade Society, and widow of the late 
Henry W. Wilkinson, died at her home 168 
Bowen Street, Providence, R.I., in her 
eighty-first year. She is survived bj her 
sister Mrs. Samuel F. Smith. 1180 Center 
Street, Newton Center, Mass. 



William A. Read 
William Augustus Lead, head of the 
banking firm of Wm. A. Read & Co., New 
York and Boston, died at his home in New 
York, Friday, April 7, 1916, sixty years of 
age. He was a Life Member of the Reade 
Society for Genealogical Research, Bos- 
ton. Mass.. and a liberal supporter of its 
work. He was a lineal descendant of Wil- 
liam Read hi Batcome, Somerset Co.. Eng- 
land, who came to America in 1635 and 
settled in Weymouth. Mass., but later re- 
moved to Boston. William August Read 
was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., May 20, 1858. 
the son of George W. and Rowland Augus- 
ta (Curtis) Read. He was graduated from 
the Brooklyn Polytechnic and Collegiate 
Institute in 1873. He began business life 
in the office of Vernily & Co. in 1877, was 
made a member of the firm in 18%. con- 
tinued until 1904, and retired to form the 
firm of Wm. A. Read & Co. Their Boston 
house is in Congress Street. Mr. Read 
married November 20, 1894, Caroline H. 
Seaman. They have had five sons and two 
daughters. 

John Warner Reed 

J. Warner Reed, a charter member of the 
Reade Society under the act of its incorpora- 
tion, February 24,1914, by the Commonwealth 
of Massachusetts, died April 11, 1914, at Hins- 
dale, Ills. He was born in Boston, June 1, 
1842, son of Alanson and Hannah(Baker)Read, 
and lineal descendant of Thomas Read of Col- 
chester, Eng., 1665, and Thomas Read, of Sud- 
bury, Mass., 1755-1701, whose wills are pub- 
lished in the No. VII Reade Record. 

J. Warner Reed was a member of the firm 
of A. Reed & Son, of the widely-known Reeds' 
Temple of Music, in Chicago, dealers and man- 
ufacturers of pianos, 1851-1899. In 1893 he 
completed and exhibited at the World's Fair 
in Chicago, the Reed System of piano construc- 
tion embodying entirely new and radical feat- 
ures for which patents were issued in United 
States, Canada, England, France, Germany, 
and Russia. 

1 1 is intent vi as to construct an artistic instru- 
ment which should have musical qualities as 
superior to the ordinary piano as a Stradiva- 
rius violin is to the ordinary brand. He re- 
ceived from the jury of awards the highest 
recognition of the worth of his scientific meth- 
od of construction, and the bronze medal. 



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LIFE MEMBERS 



Crane, Joshua E. 

G bk n. Mrs. Ella k 

11 :i is, Miss Marx a. 

Lefferts, Marshall i k 
Morse, Wili aui. s. 
Read, Charles F. 
Head, Miss i Ilara a. 
Ri u>, Miss Ella ii. 
Read, Franklin 
Read, George B. 
Read, George W. 
Re \i>. Josi in 
•Re m>. Josh i \ w. 
Read, J. Paulding 
Read, Miss Margaret ii. 
Read, Samuel ii 
•Read, .miss Sabah e 

'. William \ 
•Readk, Edgar s. 



Bridget a ter, 


Mass. 


Hartford, 


i 'null. 


Foxboro, 


Mass. 


New York 


V 1. 


New ^,,rk. 


N. V 


Brookline, 


Mass. 


\r» Bedford, 


Mass. 


New Bedford, 


MaSS 


Pitsfleld, 


Mai 


Blooniington, Ills. 


Taunton, 


Mass. 


Summi i 


E. I. 


\,-i\ ,i ik 


N. J. 


New York. 


N. Y. 


New Haven, 


Conn. 



R] i i'K, Philip 

Reed, Alanson ii 

Reed, Charles W 

Reed, Edgar 

Reed, Miss Ki.u: i A 

Reed, Horai io M. 

Reed, James 

Reed, James ii. 

Reed, John s. 

Kiin. Marion B. 

Reed, Reuben I.. 

Reed, Robert ' ' 

Robi sjson, Mks. Gr ll i: i; 

Stored . Hampton i.. 

Warren, Mrs. Catherine R, 

Waterman, Mrs. Lew i \ 

Wilis, Wiiii SGTON 

* l leceased. 



Boston 

li.i Hills, Mass. 

Boston 

Worcester, Mass 

New Haven, Conn, 

New fork, N. Y. 

Boston 

Chelsea, Mass 

Boston 

Lowell, Ma-. 

South Acton, Mass 

i in ton 

New York. N. Y 

Altadena Calif. 

Cambridge, .Mass. 

Providence, R. I. 

Boston 



ANNUAL MEMBERS 



West 



R 



AKIN, Mas EM m v r. 
Alley, John s. 
Andrews, Mrs. Ella I:. 
Black her, Mrs. Catherine 

III INCH IRD, .Ion \ s. I ' 
BLANCHARD, M iss M m;v |.. 

I'i in. ii m.o, \l iss Sis in n v R 
BRUMMEB, Mas. Mm;, \ , ■ 

Champion, Willia m i 

■ ke, Arthur F. 
■ i irke, Miss Helen c;. 

' 10 Mks. .Ion \ A 

I •"! i iii m vie* M. 

ELWELL, Mas .1 IMES II. South 

I I HETT. .Mas. I'll viii.oi i k S. 

Farr, Mrs Virg inia ii 
Field, Mas John W. 
Field, J. Howard 
Fisher, Harlan m 

Fl HI' HER, II IRR5 G. 

Friend ' iddeus K. 
(Iallett, Frank T, 
HALLETT, Miss Sabah .\. 
Ill BB Mil'. Mas. I 'HABLES ' 
HUBBART, Mas, Ii i iBl , I 
III r, iiinson. Enw IRD I'. 

■i n kson, Mas, holmes C 
Kelly, Geoui.i in \ i. 

Kl Ma \l I . Miss HELEN F. 

Kneeland, Benj IMIN ' ' 

1 I I 
Lewis. Mas. Joseph ine i: 

M IRDEN, Mas. Il.vkan i \ 
MABSHALL, Miss ADALINE 
Mraai m . Mas. EVAN Ik 
Merrow, Mas. Ren \ M. 
Morss, Mas. Evei 
Nead, Mi: Daniei W 
Neil, Mas Henry m. 
Noi ton, Mas. Joseph \ 
(in. rir. Jason Ik 
Parsons, Mas. m mi a. 
Peat, Miss Helen L. 
I'i.i Ti.ii. Mas. Benj imin 
M on. Miss i 'na t i 
l'ia 3T0N . Mas i . 

. Mas. Mary R. 
i: . 'i mono. Daniel 
Read, Alex i 
Read, Andre • i 
Re u>, Charles \ 

I.'' u . I 'ii un 1 s I 

Read, Clarence f. 
Read, Miss Edith B. 
in io. Edward M. 

■ I. I-'. 
Read, George R. 
Ri id, II (bold ' ' 

11' a HENR5 I '. 

Ill LD, MHklail RNE S. 

Ill ID, W 11.1,1 v M 

Rbade, Artemus B 



Mass. 

, i 
X. Y. 



Reade, 

in \i 



Ik Clinton 
Rev. Charles 



'...ik, N. Y. 

Pelham, N. Y. 

New i.n'k, N. Y. 

Tints Coil,".'.-. Mass. 

s. Weymouth, .Mass. 

S. Weymoui h, Mass. 

s. Weymouth, Mass 

i ' bo i, \. II 

Bi kllne, Mass 

Brookline, 

I'i.o idem e 

i 'liiiii.n. 

Weymouth, 

. in 

Atlanta, Ga. 
Dorchester, Mass. 

Broi ktOD, Mass. 

Holcomb, V ■, 

Somen hi.- u. - 

1 llouc -" i , \ki - 

New % ..ri. . \ v 
Providence, K. I 
Taunton, Mas 
... i ki I 
Cambridge, \ i .. - 
Fast i (range, N. .1. 
Boston 
Brookline, Mass 

W Obum, Mass 

I . I 0] 

South Duxbury, U 

Tli.- Dallas. Ore. 

Yoik Village. Ma. 

Si ra. use. N. Y. 

Maiden, Mass. 

Boston 

Readii 

Columbus, Ohio 

Lisbon, V II. 

Soni h r.raim ree, Mass 

Avon Lak.- 

I lllilsoll 

Roxbury, 

t .a wrence, 

Norwich, 

S. -ilnut.-, Mass 

-'ill.-. _\ Y 

Santa l-'a. V M 

Boston 
Manchester, .Mass. 
Worcester, Mass. 
Wellsville, N. Y. 
Brookline. Mass. 
St. Louis. .Mo. 
Fislikill. N. Y. 
SCW York. N. Y. 
Brookline, .Mass. 
i 'anil. ri. la.-. Mas- 
Hamilton, V Y 
Cambridge, .Mass. 
Boston 
SI. John. V B 
Cincinnati, Ohio 



R. 



'Ik 



. Ohio 

. N, Y. 

Ma st 

Mass. 
i 'onn. 




Aaron a. 
Albert a. 
Albebt m. 

Al.iNzo Ik 
'ii MILES I 1 vna 

' ii m;i lis K 

Miss Clara m. 
Clarence l>. 
•ana 

Edw \ai. 1>. 
'nil \ao M. 
Edward f 
Edward T. 
Miss Ik [ZABETB 
B W. 

Ik Howard 

Flora C. 
Floyd 0. 

Frani IS Ik 

Feed L. 
: iii d, Frederick F. 
Reed, Frederic ii. 

George A, 

Hi i o. I 111 a II 

Hi. .am: M 

II ED, I 111. "a. I W 

Hi ' II via. I o F 

Miss Helen I. ham 
Reed, Henri B. 

Miss Flor \ C 
i ' -, Homer j. 
Reed, Hon i no m 

John II. 
Reed, j. Russell 
Reed, J. Warner, Jr. 
Reed, Miss i.ii.i.i \n 
Reed, Miss i.i . i || 
Reed, Miss m hi i 
1 1 i 'las, M \a.. 
Reed, Marshall 
Reed, Mildred a. 
Reed, Morris a. 
Reed, Ralph ii. 
Reed, Sa.mi el B 
Reed, Sylvanus a. 
Reed, Warren a 
lima.. William B 
Reed, William i: 
lima., Willi i i i . 
Hum.. William HOW i.i i 
Reed, Mas. Willi hi I! 
" ii i.i ui i: 

i . Miss II. PriscJ 

Russell, Mas. Louisa s. 
Sargent, Allan C. 
Sawyer, Mas. Edw ,i,o i. 
Simpson, Henry j 
smith. Mas. Samuel Ik 
Stevens, Mas. saka R. 

Stow ELL, Mas. CHARLES 

Washburn, Mas. Alfrei 

ki i i i i: ii in. Mas. Jessie 

Webb, Mas. Ellen R. 
Williams, G. Moot 



w hitman, Mass 
Boulder, Colo 

All.ani . V Y. 
West Soraervllle, Mas. 
New fork, \ 1 
Worcester, Mass 
\Yrstii.-i.i. Mass 
Whitman, u 

Coon Ka|.i.ls, loii. 

Buffalo, \k Y 
Wellesley mils. Mass 
Everett, M 
Albany, V \ 
Boston 
North Brookfield, m 

Woi si, r, M iss 

Long Branch, Cal 

Vonkers N S 

la, si Weymouth, hi 

Cohasset, U 

Thompson, Conn 

New 1 , .i-k \ Y 

Montpeller, \ 

' .OH ol-.l. \ || 

Kaon,'. \. II. 

Ik. SI, ,1. 

Brookllm 
Cambridge, Mass 

AiilMirnil.il,'. Mass. 

Long Branch, Cal 

i 'anandalgua, \. Y 

New York, N. Y. 

Amenia, No, I lak. 

Boston 

Benton Harbor, Mich 

Washington, 1 1 C 

s I. w ' ,i mouth, vi. 

Columbus, Ohio 
Boston, .Mass 
ik. -i Whitman, -- 
Mum-.... Bridge, Mo 

St. Jos, 'ph. M,,. 

Manchester, N. II. 

Boston 

New ~i ork, \. v 

Brockton, Mass 

Westfield, Mass, 

Washlngtonville, N. Y 

New York. V •> 

Roxbury, M 

s ii Weymouth, Mass 

New Brunswick, N. J. 
ii a Arlington 

Arlington, Mass. 

Graniteville, .Mass 

Lowell, Mass 

Detroit, Mich 

Newton i !entre, • 

Portland, Me 
ii Lowell, U 

■ Brookline, Mass. 

Los Angeles, Cal. 

ScltUate, Mass. 

Marquette, Mich 



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Number X. 



BOSTON. MASS.. U.S.A. 



I'M/ 



THE READE SOCIETY 

FOR GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH 
ORGANIZED 1904 INCORPORATED 1914 



Behind this sliield stands a 
Nation of Free Men, 



Ardent for Peace, but stern in a 
War for Liberty and Humanity. 



The Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the Reade Society was 
held at the Old State House on October 31, 191 7, at 3 P.M. In 
the absence of the President, Gen. Philip Reade, the Treasurer, 
Charles F. Read, acted as Chairman. 

The reports of the Treasurer and Secretary were read and 
accepted. 

It was unanimously voted that the action of the Executive 
Committee in investing two hundred ($200) dollars of the Society's 
Life Fund in Liberty Bonds be ratified and confirmed. It was 
further voted to adopt the following amendments to Article 3 of 
the Society's By-Laws : 

CORRESPONDING SECRETARIES 

The Executive Committee may appoint from the membership of the 
Society, as Corresponding Secretaries, such members as they deem suitable 
for the extension of the work of the society. 

PECUNIARY RECOMPENSE 

No officer or official of the Society shall be entitled to claim any 
pecuniary recompense for work in connection with the Society, except the 
official genealogist. 

The election of officers was then held, for which see page 10. 

The meeting was then dissolved, having been a business 
session only. The usual social reunion and banquet were omitted 
in view of the present war conditions. 



Boston,- Mass., October 31, 191/ 



ALANSON H. REED, 

Secretary. 



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THE READE RECORD 






WILLIAM READ OF BATCOMBE 

Weymouth, Mass., 1635-1646; Boston, 1646-1674 



(Reade List No. 2) 
By George S. Stewar'J 



MARRIAGE RECORD 

Anno Regni dni Caroli Angliae Quinto, 
1629, Duodecimo die Octobris Gulielmus 
Reade filius viduae Reade de Batcombi in 
Com Somerset duxit Suzanam Haym filiam 
Joannae Mountyer viduae de Langeham. 

The foregoing is correctly copied from 
the register of Baptisms in the Parish of 
Gillingham in the County of Dorset. 

EDWARD I.NMAN, 
Vicar of Gillingham. 

Translation. 

In the fifth year of King Charles of Eng- 
land.. 1629, on the 12th day of October, 
William Reade, son of the widow Reade of 
Batcombe in County Somerset married 
Susanna Hayme. daughter of Joanna Mon- 
tier, widow of Langham. 

[The above record is contributed by Alanson 
H. Reed, our Secretary-] 



This immigrant came to Massachu- 
setts with Rev. Joseph Hull's company 
in 1635 and was the first Reach- to 
found a family in New England. He 
was born about the year 1607 (if we 
accept the record of the passenger 
list) but his birthplace and parentage 
are yet to be found. His father died 
before 1629, in which year, William 
and his widowed mother were resi- 
dents of Batcombe, Somersetshire, 
England. William Reade married 
first, October 12, 1629, at St. Mary's 
Gillingham, Dorsetshire, Susanna 
Hayme, born about 1606, daughter of 
Edward and Joanna Hayme of Gil- 
lingham. Her mother, who is named 
in the marriage record as the "widow 
Joanna Montier," had been married 
at least three times ; first, to John 
Reade of Langham in Gillingham ; 
second, to Edward Hayme ; third, to 
Francis Montier, who died, testate, 
about 1622. 

William Reade was by occupation a 



tailor and resided at Batcombe till his 
departure for New England in 1635, 
in company with a number of his fel- 
low-townsmen. The passenger list is 
dated "Waymouth" [England], 
March 20, 1635, and includes "Willm 
Read of Batcombe, Taylor, in Som'- 
sett, aged 28 yeare ; Susan Read, his 
wife, aged 29 yeare ; Hanna Read, his 
daughter, aged 3 yeare ; Susan Read, 
his daughter, aged 1 yeare; Richard 
Adams, his servant, aged 29 yeare" 
and about 100 others. The name of 
the ship in which they sailed is not 
mentioned. They disembarked at 
Dorchester, Mass., June 7, 1635, and 
immediately set out for Wessagussett, 
("soon after named "Weymouth," for 
the English port whence they had 
sailed). On September 2, 1635, Rev. 
Joseph Hull and four other members 
of his church, William Reade, Richard 
Adams, John Upham, and Robert 
Lovell were made freemen of the 
Colony of Massachusetts Bay. In 
1636, William Reade was chosen 
Deputy for Weymouth to the General 
Court, a great honor for so young a 
man. and proof of his popularity and 
ability ; he was again elected Deputy 
for Weymouth in 1638. He was 
chosen Constable in 1644, and in 
1651, though then a non-resident, he 
was chosen one of the "Townsmen" 
or Selectmen, evidently from a desire 
to induce him to return to Weymouth. 

While the land records for that 
period are quite imperfect, they show 
that William Reade owned more than 
50 acres in Weymouth ; in 1636, he 
was given 18 acres in the Freemen's 
Grant, and in 1637, he bought the 
house and 20 acres of land that had 
belonged to Zachary Bicknell of Wey- 
mouth ; about 1643, he owned the fol- 
lowing lots in Weymouth : 18^ acres 



THE KEADE RECORD 



in the East Field, 8 l / 2 acres in the 
"Wester Neck" with 2 acres of salt 
marsh, and 16 acres among the 
"Great Lots" ; in 1644, he bought of 
Edward Smith 10>4 acres in the 
"Wester Neck." How much of this 
property he disposed of before his 
removal to Boston in 1646, is not 
shown by the land records, but he did 
not sell his 2 acre swamp lot in Wey- 
mouth until November 28, 1673. 

It is believed that William Reade 
had at least four children born during 
his stay at Weymouth, viz. Margaret, 
William, Esther, and Josiah, though 
the present imperfect vital records 
name but two. The first of his 
children recorded in Boston was John 
Reade, baptized in the First Church, 
September 27, 1646 "sonne of Wil- 
lyam Reade, a Recomended Member 
from the Church at Waymouth." 
This connection with the Weymouth 
Church is several times mentioned in 
the baptismal records of the Boston 
Church, the latest occasion being 
November 29. 1657. when his son 
Ephraim Reade was baptized. May 
15, 1647, William Reade and Susanna, 
his wife, were admitted to member- 
ship in the Boston Church "upon Ires" 
(i.e. letters) "of Dismission from the 
Church at Waymouth." 

Susanna (Hayme), first wife of 
William Reade, died at Boston, Oc- 
tober 12, 1653, aged about 47 years. 
He married second, at Boston, March 
20, 1654, Ruth Crooke, a woman ap- 
parently much younger than himself, 
bv whom he had 10 children. On 
February 16, 1654/5, he purchased of 
Rev. John Wilson a small lot of land, 
bounded on the east by Devonshire 
Street, (then called "Crooked Lane"), 
and on the north, by "the street lead- 
ing to the Dock," on which he erected 
the dwelling house and shop, sold by 
him in 1672. His wife went back to 
England in 1669, soon after the birth 
of her tenth child, and upon her re- 
turn four years later, she was brought 
to trial, and banished from the colony 
for misconduct while abroad. She 



was living in Rhode Island in 1674, 
as appears by William Reade's peti- 
tion for permission for her to return, 
dated September 2 of that year, which 
was not granted by the Court. 

This is the latest record found of 
William Reade, the date and place of 
whose death is not known. He prob- 
ably joined his wife in Rhode Island 
and it is known that he died before 
June 13, 1679. when his son Hezekiah 
was placed under guardianship, as the 
following record shows : 

"A County Court held att N. Lond n , 
June 13, 1679. The Court having 
Considered of the petition of Heze- 
kiah Read, an orphane under age, & 
the allegations therein doe grant him 
Liberty according to Law to choose 
his Guardians, & accordingly he did 
in open Court choose Josiah Read & 
John" Read, his Elder Brothers, to be 
his Guardians who are accepted by 
the Court & the sd orphan Committed 
to their care for his good Education 
in the feare of God, good Literature, 
& some particular calling, and the sd 
orphane desireing to be with his 
brother Jn° Read dureing his minority 
to the age of twenty-one yeares, the 
Court have Consented thereunto, he 
the sd John his Brother ingageing 
before the Court to give him good 
education as before & to teach him 
the trade of a weaver according to his 
best skill & to allow him Competent 
& Comfortable maintenance, meate, 
drinke, cloathing & other necessaries 
Convenient dureing the sd terme & to 
pay him five pounds towards his set- 
ting up at the expiration of the terme 
with Comlv apparell, his Eldest 
Brother & Guardian, the sd Josiah 
Read Consenting unto this dispose." 

( New London. Conn. Court Record, 
Vol. Ill p. 124). 

The term "orphane." as used above, 
did not apparently then mean that 
both parents of Hezekiah were de- 
ceased, for on June 7. 1681, "Ruth 
Percy" w-as "Plaintiff Contra Jn° 
Read, Deffend n . in an action of Debt 
due to her for the service of her sonn, 



THE READE RECORD 



Hezekiah Read, for the time he was 
with him to the value of eighteen 
pounds : In this action the Court 
ord rs a non suite." 

( New London Court Record, Vol. 
III. p. 156). Ruth (Crooke) Read, it 
appears, married second, before the 
above date, a Mr. Percy. No later 
information has come to hand in re- 
gard to her or her son, Hezekiah. 
Children of William Reade. 
(by first wife, Susanna Hayme) 

1. Hannah b. in England. 1632; 
d. unm,, in Boston. Nov. 25, 1656. 

2. Susanna b. in England, 1634; 
m. (1) at Boston, Dec. 13, 1659. 
Samuel Smith ; m. (2) at Taunton, 
Nov. 14, 1689, Thomas Lincoln; res. 
I aunton, Mass. 

3. Margaret b. prob. abt. 1637 ; m. 
at Boston, Mar. 3, 1659, Richard 
Stubbs of Hull. The evidence of her 
parentage is purely circumstantial. 

4. William b. Weymouth, Dec. 15, 
1639 ; prob. d. young. 

5. Esther b. Weymouth, May 8, 
1641 ; m. at Boston, July 30, 1661, 
John Cann; res. Boston. 

f> Fosiah b. prob. abt. 1643; m. at 
Marshfield, Nov. 1666, Grace Hollo- 
way ; ancestor of the Norwich, Conn., 
Reads ; res. Norwich. 

7. John b. Boston, Sept. 25, 1646; 
m. ( 1 ) abt. 1672, Hannah Holloway, 
sifter of Grace, (above); m. (2) 
Sarah ; ancestor of the Wind- 
ham, Conn. Reads; res. Norwich and 
Windham. 

(by second wife, Rutli Crooke) 
all born in Boston. 

S. William b. Feb. 3, 1654/5; was 
wild in his youth, brought into Court 
in 1671, living in 1673, and perhaps 
later a mariner. 

9. Isaac b. Apr. 18, 1656; men- 
tioned in Court Records in 1671, in 
connection with his brother; later a 
mariner of Boston ; d. in England 
1695. 

10. Ephraim b. Nov. 23, 1657; 
later history unknown. 



11. Jonathan b. Apr. 23, 1659; d. 
July 2, 1659. 

12. Timothy b. Aug. 11, 1660; 
later history unknown. 

13. Ruth b. May 7, 1662 (erro- 
neously recorded as "William"); d. 
July 17, 1662. 

14. Hezekiah b. July 6, 1663 ; in 
1679, he chose his elder brothers, 
Josiah and John Read, to be his guar- 
dians. 

15. Sarah b. June 26, 1665; later 
history unknown. 

16. Elizabeth b. Dec. 22, 1666; d. 
young. 

17. Elizapetii b. Apr. 22, 1669; 
later history unknown. 



THE WILL OF JACOB HEAD 
Salem, Mass., 1662-1745 



^ 



(Reade Lisc No 6) 



_acob Read, of Salem in the 
County of Essex in the Province of 
the Mass' tts Bay in New England, 
yeoman, being sensible of my mor- 
tality, tho (through the great good- 
ness of God) of sound mind and 
memory, do, for the disposall and Set- 
tlement of what worldly Estate God 
has graciously given me, make and 
ordain my Last will and Testament in 
form and manner following viz. : 

Imprimis. I will that my Just 
Debts and the Charges of a Decent 
Buriall for me and my wife be well 
paid and Discharged. 

Item. I will that my Beloved wife 
Elizabeth Read have the one half 
of the income or produce of my whole 
estate for her comfortable support 
during her natural life. 

Item. I will and Bequeath to my 
Daughter, Mary Procter my Lott of 
land containing eight acres, more or 
less, which I Bought of Dan'l Epes 
Esq.. deceased, except one acre and an 
half thereof at the Northeasterly End 
hereafter given to my daughter Sarah, 
to be to my sd. Daughter Mary and 
her heirs forever, after my decease 
and my wife's decease. 

Item. I Give and bequeath to my 



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THE READE RECUKD 



Daughter, Sarah Goldthwayt, one 
acre and an half acre of Land at the 
Northeasterly End of the Lott Bought 
of Daniel Epes Esq.. above expressed, 
to be sett off from the Remainder 
above given to my daughter Mary by 
a Streight line running parrellel with 
the Northeasterly line of sd lott of 
land. And also Five acres of Lands 
in the North field Next adjoining to 
the Fosters and Smalls Lands, which 
two pieces of Land to be to her my sd 
Daughter Sarah and her heirs for- 
ever, after my decease and her 
mother's decease. 

Item. I give and bequeath to my 
Daughter Elizabeth Trask my now 
dwelling house and land adjoyning 
being about one acre, to be to her 
and her heirs forever, after my de- 
cease and my wifes decease, I also 
give and Bequeath to my son in Law 
John Trask and my said Daughter 
Elizabeth his wife one certain house- 
lott in New-Salem containing Thirty 
Five Acres, more or Less, being that 
whereon they now dwell, to be to 
them and the longest liver of them 
for life, and after their decease to be 
to the children of my said Daughter 
Elizabeth and their heirs forever. 

Item. I Give and bequeath to my 
son, Jonathan Read, the whole Re- 
mainder of my Estate, Both Reall and 
Personal, be the same more or Less, 
to be to him and his heirs forever, 
after my decease and his Mothers 
Decease. 

Lastly, I hereby constitute and ap- 
point my said son Jonathan Read 
Sole Executor of this my Last will 
and Testament. I also appoint Mr. 
Thorndike Procter of Salem abovesd, 
overseer of this my will, and hereby 
request him to accept & discharge that 
Trust. In witness whereof I have 
hereunto sett my hand and seall this 
Fifth day of January Anno Dom. 
1742. 

Jacob Read, (seal) 

Signed Sealed Published and De- 
clared to be his last Will and Testa- 
ment by Mr. Jacob Read in the pres- 



ence of us Robert Wilson, William 
King, John Nurse. 

Essex SS., Proved at Ipswich, 
Aprill 8th, 1745, Rob. Wilson & Wm. 
King sworn &c. 

(Essex Co. Probate Records, Salem, 
Mass., File No. 23366) 

The seal of Jacob Read bears a 
coat-of-arms with crest, but its de- 
tails cannot be clearly made out, being 
covered with a piece of thick paper. 

. . Comment. 

^acob Read, the above testator, was 
the youngest son of Thomas Read, 
"planter," of Salem, by his second 
wife, Mary. (See Reade Record No. 
VI, pp. 9-10). According to the 
Vital Records, Jacob was born in 
Salem, August 7, 1662, but there is 
some evidence that the date should 
be a year later, viz. 1663. His older 
brother of the samr name, born Feb- 
ruary 22. 1658/9 ; died November 19. 
1663. The second Jacob, the testator 
above, was baptized in the First 
Church. Salem, November 7, 1663. 
He deposed, November 17, 1726, 
"aged about sixty-three years." 
(Essex Co. Deeds, Vol. 47, p. 181). 
He married at Salem, December, 1693, 
Elizabeth Greene, horn in Salem, 
February 20, 1667/8, daughter of 
John and Mary ( Warren) Greene. 
They resided in Salem and died there, 
but the exact dates of their deaths are 
not found. Their three oldest- sons, 
Aaron, John, and Jacob Read, appar- 
ently died young, no record of them 
appearing after birth and none of 
them being mentioned in their father's 
will, above. Jacob and Elizabeth 
(Greene) Read had seven children, 
all born in Salem : 

1 . Aaron b. Jan. 1694/5 ; prob. d. 
young. 

2. John b. Jan. 26, 1695/6; prob. 
d. young. 

3. Mary b. Mar. 9, 1697; m. at 
Salem, May 14, 1723, Nathan Procter ; 
res. Salem. 

4. Jacob b. Feb. 12, 1699/1700; 
prob. d. young. 

— 54Jonathan 3 1). Jan. 12, 1701/2;*P 

r 



THE READE RECORD 



in. ( 1 ) Anna Hanson, of Dover, N.H. ; 
m.(2) at Salem, Jan. 1, 1743/4, Sarah 
Kempton ; rem. to Smithfield, R.I. 
1746; d. there, testate, will proved 
May 31, 1779. ancestor of the Smith- 
held Reads. 

6. Sarah b. May 15. 1703; d. at 
Northbridge, Mass. May 9, 1787; m. 
at Salem, Jan. 1, 1726/7, Samuel 
( Joldthwaite Jr. 

7. Elizabeth b. Mar. 13, 1704/5; 
in at Salem, Dec. 19. 1727, John 
Trask 3rd. ; res. New Salem. Mass. 

g. s. s. 



Col. JOHN READ OF REDDING, CONN. 

1699 - 1786 

(Reade List No. 14) 

lie was the eldest son of Hon. John 
and Ruth (Talcott) Read, of whom 

ne account was given in Reade 
Record, No. V; and was baptized in 
Fairfield. May 14, 1699; he died at 
Redding, ( let. 30. 1786. after a long 
and honorable career. He was the 
principal landowner in the parish of 
Reading, which took its name from 
hi^ family. This place was originally 
part of Fairfield, Conn., and when it 
became a township, the spelling of the 
name was altered to Redding. John 
Read was first appointed Justice of 
Peace in 1733, a position he retained 
for nearly 50 years ; he was first 
elected Representative in 1740 and 
served 14 years in the Connecticut 
Assembly. He was appointed cap- 
tain of the trainband at Reading in 
1739; major of the 4th Conn. Regi- 
ment in 1753; lieutenant colonel in 
May, 1757, and colonel in October of 
the same year. He resigned in 1775, 
being too old for active service. Col. 
Read was twice married ; first, at 
Stratford, Sept. 20, 1723, to Mary 
Hawley, born June 6, 1697, died Feb. 
19, 1748, daughter of Capt. John and 
Deborah ("Person" ?) Hawley, of 
Stratford, Conn. He married second, 
Dec. 19. 1750. Sarah Bradley, daugh- 
ter of Samuel of Greenfield Hill, 



Conn. ; she died at Redding, May 18, 
1774, aged 48 years. 

Children, born at Fairfield and Red- 
ding, Conn. : 

(by first wife) 

1. Mary b. Sept. 2, 1724; m. Sept. 
4. 1745, John Flerpin, Jr., of Milford. 
Conn., son of a French physician of 
that place. 

2. Ensign John b. Jan. 16, 1725/6; 
d. Sept. 23. 1757; appointed ensign in 
1754; in. Dec. 18. 1746. Tabitha Haw- 
ley, b. Apr. 5, 1730, dau. of Joseph 
and Hannah ( Walker) Hawley, of 
Redding; she m. (2), Feb. 25, 1759, 
Elias Bates. Children: John bapt. 
Feb. 2, 1752; Abigail bapt. Aug. 31, 
1755. Res. Redding. 

3. William b. Jan. 31, 1730/1 ; m 
Dec. 11, 1753, Sarah Hawley, b. Aug 
2, 1733. sister of Tabitha (above) 
Children, bapt. in Redding Church 
Rachel, Nov. 13. 1754;' Sarah. Aug 
22, 1756; William, )an. 6, 1760 
Henry, )uly 25, 1762; Talcott. May 
26, 1765; Matilda, July 5. 1767; d 
lulv 9, 1767; Joseph, May 5, 1769 
Lemuel. Oct. 6," 1771 ; Mary, Aug. 15, 
1773; Hezekiah, Sept. 20, 1778. ' It is 
said this family removed to Ohio. 

4. Hezekiah b. Feb. 27, 1734/5; 
burned to death, Mar. 27, 1739. 

5. Capt. Zalmon bapt. July 23, 
1738; d. Jan. 15, 1801; served in the 
Colonial Wars and in the Revolution ; 
m. fan. 31, 1758, Huldah Bradley of 
Greenfield Hill, who d. June 27, 1810. 
Res. Redding. Children : Zalmon Jr. 
(an ensign in the Revolution), Hul- 
dah, Samuel, Eli, and Aaron. 

6. Luke ?, no record of him found. 

7. Huldah ?, no record found. 
The last two are named in the 

"Hawley Record." 

(by second wife) 

8. Sarah b. Nov. 27, 1751 ; m. 
Jabez Hill, a major in the Revolution. 

9. Hezekiah b. Feb. 23, 1753; d. 
July 13, 1824; m. (1) May 14, 1775, 
Anna Gorham, who d. Feb. 23, 1785; 
m. (2) Feb. 22, 1789, Abigail Hull, 
who d. Sept. 4, 1840. Res. Redding. 



THE READE RECORD 



4 children by first wife: Anna, Sarah, 
Ulilla, Hezekiah ; 4 children by second 
wife : Deborah, Thaddeus, Elizabeth, 
Samuel Bradley. 

10. Ruth b. Sept. 25, 1754; m. 
Jeremiah Mead, a Revolutionary sol- 
dier. 

11. Deborah b. Apr. 5, 1756; m. 
July 12, 1775, Thaddeus Benedict, Jr., 
of Danbury, a Yale graduate of 1773, 
who became a prominent lawyer. 

12. Mary b. Mar. 4, 1758 ;'d. Mar. 

o 1 7^Q 

' 13. Mabel b. Sept. 9, 1759 ; d. Aug. 
21, 1849 ; m. Dec. 22, 1779, Levi Starr, 
of Danbury. 

14. Esther b. Dec. 26, 1760; m. 
Jan. 7, 1778, Daniel C. Bartlett, a 
Revolutionary soldier. 

15. Levi b. Mar. 19, 1764; d. same 

day. 

16. John b. Apr. 30, 1765; m. Zoa 
Hillard. Res. Redding, 1790. 

Much of the above information has 
been obtained from letters written to 
Jacob W. Reed in 1858, by Charles D. 
Smith of Redding, Conn., and Aaron 
Read, a merchant in Troy, N. Y., who 
was a son of Ensign Zalmon Read, of 
Redding. These old letters are now 
the property of Alanson H. Reed, our 
Secretary. C. S. S. 



ESDRAS READE 

(Reade List No. 8) 

Esdras Reade, a tailor, is first mentioned 
in Boston, Dec. 24, 1638. He was the 
founder of an important Boston family, 
some account of which appears in ■ the 
Reade Record No. V. 

In a deposition, found in the Middlesex 
Court Files, under date of Dec. 29, 1657, 
Esdras gives his age as "about 57 years." 
This is believed more accurate than the in- 
scription on his gravestone in the Copp's 
Hill Burying Ground, Boston, which reads 
"Esdras Reade, aged 85 years, died July 27. 
1680." 

The name, Esdras, is so rare, that when a 
record is found of an Esdras Reade, tailor, 
of London, in 1633, we feel confident we 



are on the trail of the New England immi- 
grant of 1638, whose name and occupation 
coincide exactly with those of the London 
man. 

Through an investigation made in Eng- 
land for our Secretary, Mr. Alanson H. 
Reed, by the well known genealogist, Mr. 
J. Gardner Bartlett, the parentage and prob- 
ably the birthplace of Esdras Reade are now 
for the first time indicated. He was the 
son of Esdras and Bathsheba Reade, of 
Sutton Mallet, Parish of Moorlinch, Somer- 
setshire, England. His father, Esdras 
Reade, Sr., died about 1611, a tenant of a 
messuage of 25 acres of the Manor of Sut- 
ton Mallet ; his widow, Bathsheba, who died 
about 1630, disposed of her rights in the 
property in 1618, to her brother-in-law, John 
Reade. These facts appear in a suit 
brought by the younger Esdras, Oct. 18, 
1633, described as "a taylor, of London," 
against his uncle, John Reade, husbandman, 
of Sutton Mallet. The mother of John and 
the elder Esdras, was Agnes Reade, who 
was living at Sutton Mallet in 1583. 

The parish registers of Moorlinch are ex- 
tant to the year 1578, and it is possible an 
examination of them would supply further 
data which would identify more completely 
our Esdras Reade of Boston and the Lon- 
don tailor of the same name. Contributions 
toward the expense of further investigation 
are invited from those interested in the 
English ancestry of Esdras Reade, and 
should be sent to our Treasurer, Mr. 
Charles F. Read, Old State House, Boston. 

A. H. R. 



RESIGNATION 

Eternal God be Thou my Judge. 
My soul seeks not to wrest from Thee 
The hidden secret held by Death 
Behind his sable curtain grim. 

If when mine eyes shall close, and life 
Has fled, they open in light serene 
From Thy high throne, Most Gracious One, 
Then shall I say, "Praise God and live." 

But if my vision deepens dark, 
In to a never ending sleep, 
Then shall I say, before the end, 
"Thou knowest best. Thy will be done." 



THE READE RECORD 



VIRGINIA IMMIGRANTS 

1607 - 1666 



James Read, the Blacksmith — 1607. The 
first Read in America. Set sail from 
London, England. 19th December, 1606, 
in the Expedition for Virginia, of which 
the redoubtable Capt. John Smith was a 
member, and arrived the 13th of May, 
1607, where the company the next day be- 
gan the building of Fort St. James and 
the founding of the Colony of Virginia. 
The adventures of the Colonists are set 
forth in "Smith's Works," a collection of 
contemporaneous publications by an Eng- 
lish scholar, Edward Arber. The part 
played by James Read, the Blacksmith, 
may be seen in "Reade Record" No. VII. 
1914, taken from "Smith's Works." His 
wife, Isabell, petitioned the "London 
Company" March 13, 1621, in behalf of 
her daughter, loane. as "next heire unto 
her deceased Father" so he must hav e 
died not long before that time and leav- 
ing no male heir to carry his name down 
to posterity. 

Thomas Read, July 3, 1622, who passed 
over (under his hand and seale) 100 
acres of Land in Virginia Scituate in 
Coxendale over against the Land of Hen- 
ricus * * * unto Edward Hued of Lon- 
don * * * wch 100 acres was granted 
unto him by Sr. Geo : Yeardley. then 
Governor of Virginia under the Collonies 
Seale. in reward of his 8 yeares good 
service with the country: * * * where- 
upon the said Assignment * * was 
allowed * * *. 

[1622—8=1614 date of his arrival.] 
[Records Virginia Co. of London. Vol. 2, 
p. 91.] 

A LIST OF NAMES: OF THE LIVING 

IX VIRGINIA FEBRUARY 16, 1623" 

[Hottens Lists.] 

1623. Roger Redes, "att ve Neck of Land." 

[p. 179] [p. 230, "neck of land neare 

James City".] 
1623. Anthony Read. "At Warwick 

Squeake." [p. 182.] 
1623. Stephen Read. "At Elizabeth 

Cittie." [p. 187.] 

MUSTERS OF THE INHABITANTS 
OF VIRGINIA 1624. 

1623. Stephen Reede, aged 17 [camel in 
the George 1618 "Elizabeth Cittie [p. 253.] 

1623. Thomas Read "aged 65 yeres"— 
Mulbury Island, [p. 241.] 



1635. Steeven Read [age] 24. 23 June 
1635. [p. 95.] * * To Virginia imbarqued 
in the America. Wm. Barker Mr. * * *. 
in the America, Wm. Barker NE. * * *. 

1635. Wm. Read [age] 30. 24 July [1635.] 
[p. 113] * * * to be transported to Vir- 
ginia imbarqued in the Assurance de Lo 
[de London:] Isaac Bromwell & George 
Pewsie Mr. [Master] 

A LIST OF THE NAMES OF THE 

DEAD IN VIRGINIA SINCE APRIL 

LAST, FEBRUARY 16, 1623" 

[Hottens Lists.] 

Read — Reed — None. [pp. .] 

PATENTS GRANTED. 

1626. In Coxendale within the Corporacon 
of Henerico [1626] Thomas Reade 100 
Acres By Patent. 

EARLY VIRGINIA IMMIGRANTS 

1623—1666 

[Bv George Cabel Greer, Richmond, Ya., 
1912] 
"The records of the Land Office in Rich- 
mond remain the only source from which 
the names can now be obtained. ***** 
* * * The search has been systematic and 
thorough and every name from 1623 (when 
the records begin) has been noted with 
date of appearance." 

"Note— The first mentioned name in every 

instance is the immigrant and the name 

following the word "by" is the pattentee 

or party bringing him over." 

Read. Thomas. 1635, by John Landman, 

County. 

Wridd, J no.. 1635. by Capt. Adam Thor- 

oughgood. Co. [Ridd-Redd- 

Read.] 
Read. J no., 1636, by Wm. Ravenott. War- 
wick River Co. 
Read, Thomas. 1636, by Randall Holt. 

James City Co. 
Read, John, 1636, by Robert Hollam, Hen- 
rico Co. 
Read. Robert, 1637, by Zachariah Cripps, 

Warwick River Co. 
Read, Wm, 1637, by Thomas Hampton, 

New Norfolk Co. 
Red. David, 1637, by William Spencer, 

Co. 

Reed. Julian, 1639, by George Minifye, 
Esq., Charles River Co. 



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Read. Thos., 1639, by Randall Holt, James 
City Co. 

Read. Georce. 1641. by Samuel Firmer, 
Upper New Norfolk Co. 

Reades, Eliua, 1642, Instiarian Cooper, Isle 
of Wight Co. 

Reed, George. 1643, by Capt. Samuel 
Matthews. Esq., Co. 

Read, Eluam, 1643, by John Wall, 

Co. 

Rede, Robert, 1645. by Zachary Cripps, 
Warwick Co. 

Read, John. 1648, by John Landman, Nan- 
simond Co. 

Read, Mr. George, 1648, by George Read, 
Gent., Co. 

[George Read Gent." was that distin- 
guished Col. George Read who came 
from Linkenholt, England, to Virginia 
about 1637 where he was Secretary of 
State in 1640 and held other important 
offices. He was the great grandfather of 
George Washington, the First President 
of the United States. (See Genealogy of 
the Washington Family bv H. O. Collins 
1900.) Also Reade Record No. VI.] 

Read, John, 1649, by Tho. Dale. 

Co. 

Read, John, 1649, by Francis Brown, 
Northumberland Co. 

Read, Rich, 1650, by Wm. Yarrett & Fra. 
Wittington, Co. 

Read, Stephen, 1651, by Mr. Antho 
Stevents, Northampton Co. 

Read, John, 1651. by Thomas Keeling, 
Lower Norfolk Co. 

Reid, David, 1651, by Richard Vaughan, 
Northampton Co. 

Read, Wm., 1652, by Wm. Owen and Wm. 
Morgan, Co. 

Reade, Fra., 1652, by Capt. Francis Morgan 
and Ralph Green. 

Read. Walter. 1652, by Mrs. Elnor Brocas, 
Gloucester Co. 

Read, Walter. 1652, by Edward Cole, 
Northumberland Co. 

Rede, A., 1653, by Geo. Taylor, Lancaster 
Co. 

Read. Archibald. 1653, by Tho. Keene, 
Northumberland Co. 

Redd. John, 1654, by Toby Smith, Lancas- 
ter Co. 

Read, John, 1654, by John Drayton, West- 
moreland Co. 

Read, Walter, 1654, by Andrew Gibson, 

Co. 

Read, Peter, 1654, by Walter, Charles City 

Co. 
Read. Owen, 1655. by George Frizell and 

Tho. Moore, Northampton Co. 



THE WEST INDIES. 

Barbados — St. Christopher — Isle of 

Providence. 

[Hottens Lists— 1600— 1700.] 

James ^Read [age] 19. 17th Feb., 1634. 
x x "To the Barbadoes imbarqued in ye 
Hopewell, Capt. Tho. Wood, Mr." 
[Master.] 

Elizabeth Reed of Exon [20th Feb.. 1634] 

a spinster aged 19 years or thereabouts. 
Bound for St. Christopher, [p. 152.] 

Wm. Read [age] 16 x x 16 Aprilis 1635 x x 
to be transported to the Island of Provi- 
dence imbarqued in ye Expectation, 
Cornelius Billinge Mr. x x x. [p. 67.] 

Marmaduke Read [age] 25 yeres. 21st 
May, 1635 x x to St St. Christophers, im- 
barqued in the Mathezv of London, 
Richard Goodladd Mr. x x x. [p. 80.] 

Parish of St. James, 1678 Mention of Judge 
Reid. [p. 498.] 

Parish of St. George— Burialls — "Mary ye 
daughter of Thomas Read buried August 
11, 1679. [p. 468.] 

B A RB A does — 1680. 

"A list of the Innabitants in and about the 
Town of St. Michaells wth their chil- 
dren, servants, prentices, bought servants 
and Negroes." [p. 438.] 

Tho. Read & wife. No children, hired 
servants or bought servants. 1 Negro 
slave, [p. 443.] 

Lawrence Reed & wife. No children, hired 
servants or bought servants. 1 Negro 
slave, [p. 446] 

"Sir Will: Booths List of Prisoners 
Sent to Barbados. 

"Somersett Shire." October 24, 1685. 
****** "Shipt at Bristol!" Eng. * * 
******* [p. 332-4.] 

Osman [or Symond] Reid. [p. 337.] 

Osman Read [in receipt of Edwyn Stede 
in Barbados 29 Jan'y, 1685] [p. 339.] 

Osmond, Read, in receipt of Sir William 
Booths for the prisoners "att the Bride- 
well at Taunton" England, 25 Sept., 1685. 
xxx One hundred persons attainted of 
high Treason which are by me to be 
transported into his Maties Island of 
Barbadoes x x x. [p. 340.] 

A. H. R. 



COATS OF ARMS 

It should always be remembered that in 
Heraldry only the grantee of a coat of arms 
and his descendants are entitled to make use 
of it. It follows that in no family is there one 
general coat that covers all persons or branches 
of that name. The Reade Society Coat of Arms 
is authorized by the Commonwealth of Mas- 
sachusetts under the charter of incorporation 
granted the Society, which empowers ii " to 
adopt suitable emblems, arms or insignia, for 
the use of said corporation or its members." 



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Gbe IReafce IRccorfc 

Single Copies, One Dollar 
Value Lies in the Contents 



Published by 
THE READE SOCIETY 

For Ge lealogi :al Research 




lirig.-Gen. PHILIP READE, President 
U.S.A. Retired Boston, Mass. 

CHARLES A. READ, Vice-President 

Manchester, Mass, 
CHARLES F. READ, Treasurer 

Boston, Mass. 
ALANSON H. REED, Secretary 

Boston, Mass. 
G3 oRGE S. STEWART, Genealogist 

Watertown, Mass. 

Annua) Meetings 

Fourteen annual meetings of the Reade 
Society have been held in Massachusetts, as 
follows : 

Taunton, July 14, 1904. 

Boston, October 12, 1905. 

South Weymouth, September 27, 1906. 

West Bridgewater, October 17, 1907. 

Boston, October 28, 190S. 

Boston, October 28, 1909. 

Lexington, October 28, 1910. 

South Weymouth, October 27, 1911. 

Turlington, October 16, 1912. 

Boston, October 30, 1913. 

Boston, October 22, 1914. 

Boston, October 28, 1915. 

Boston, October 31, 1916. 

Boston, October 31, 1917. 

YOU ARE INVITED TO JOIN 

Membership fees, one dollar per year, or 
$10 for a Life Membership, exempt from future 
dues should be sent to Charles F. Read, 
Treasurer, Old State House, Boston, Mass. 

RUT" Let it ever be remembered that the 
Reade Record is mailed only to members 
whose dues have been paid. The Society is 
limited in its printing by its income. 



THE SECRETARY SAYS: 

That if he was President of the United 

States for one hour only, he would send the 
Kaiser America's orly terms of peace in just 
two words: " Unconditional Surrender !" 

That Mr. Arthur William Read, an 

F.nglish gentleman on his way home from ser- 
vice in East Africa, stopped over in Boston to 
have a chat on matters genealogical, in which 
he is interested. Is a member of one of the 
oldest Read families in England. It was a 
pleasure to meet and converse with him His 
home is in Leicester, Leicestershire, Eng. 

That today all England considers the 

American Revolution as a war in which an 
English gentleman, George Washington, was 
victorious over a German King — George III. 

That our members will rejo'ice to know 

that our honored former President, Rev. James 
Keed of Boston, still enjoys good health and is 
active in the affairs of life in these critical times. 

That the Reade Sex mm is honored 

by the election, April 19, '18, of its Treasurer, 
Mr. Charles F. Read, as President of the Mas- 
sachusetts Society of the Sons of the American 
kevolution. 

That, May 21, '18, Mr. Read was also 

elected 18th Vice-President of the National So- 
ciety of the Sons of the American Revolution. 

That the articles in this issue of the 

Record by Mr. George S. Stewart are of great 
value. He is without doubt one of the best 
informed genealogists in America concerning 
the ancestral lines of the Reade family. 

That again he returns thanks for the 

steadfast loyalty of the present Society mem- 
bers, whose paid-in dues have rendered possible 
the issue of the present number of the Record. 

That our members may note that the 

Wills of Thomas Read of Colchester and of 
Thomas Reade of Sudbury are a reprint of 
those in the Record, No. VI I, where they appear 
in a form not up to the standard of clarity and 
excellence that the Record should maintain. 
So they are reprinted in this issue with addi- 
tional items of value. 

That two bits of verse printed in this 

issue point out the one or the other path by 
which all men pass out of this life. 

That "The Unseen Shore" is a most 

beautiful statement of faith in a life beyond 
this. In " Resignation " is the doubt and 
uncertainty of the agnostic, the unbeliever in 
the orthodox ; yet a trusting believer in the 
absolute justice of God. 

That acknowledgment is due to Miss 

Adaline T. Marshal], a member of the Reade 
Society, for copies of the York records in the 
article concerning Thomas B. Reed, of Maine, 

That it should be forbidden. He was 

nearly run over by an automobile on a street 
crossing because a careless miss walked ahead 
of him with such scant skirts and silken hose. 



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WILLIAM READ, OF WEYMOUTH, MASS., 1653-1658 



(Reade List, No. 16) 



The earliest mention found of this important 
immigrant is under date of May 18, 1653, when 
he was made a freeman (or \oter) of the Massa- 
chusetts Bay Colony, at Weymouth, of which 
town he had become an inhabitant, apparently 
but a short time before. He was evidently a 
church member, for then only church members 
were eligible to be freemen. This record 
proves beyond a doubt that he was not the 
" William Reade " elected a " Townsman " (or 
Selectman) at Weymouth, Nov. 26, 1651, for 
only freemen were eligible for that office. A 
very few entries on the ancient and incomplete 
records at Weymouth seem to relate to the 
freeman of 1653 and his family, viz ; 

" Maty Read, dau. of William, died Apr. 16. 
1655"; "John Vining married May 11, 1657, 
Marg., dau. of William Read "; " Marget Vin- 
ing, wife of John, died July 6, 1659"; "The 
11th of January, 1657 " (i.e. 1657 / 8) " William 
Read for 2000 bolts," cut on the Town Com- 
mons, " payd Thos. Dyer 2s. 6d." William 
Read died at Weymouth between this last 
date and April 6, 1658, when " the Townsmen 
ordered that the Widow Read shall have lib- 
erty to take in a garden plott in the swamp 
before her House, provided she lay up that 
garden plott to common formerly granted neere 
Macuth Pratts barne & that she take no more 
in than the aforesaid ploct contaynes." It is 
evident that William Read had been granted a 
houselot and garden plot by the town, no 
record of which now appears on the town 
books. The baptismal name of William 
Read's wife first appears " the 6th of the 12th 
Month, 1659 " (Feb. 6, 1659/60) when " it was 
further granted that Widow Avis Read should 
have a swamp lott by virtue that her Husband 
was then an Inhabitant, when the sayd swamp 
lotts were granted." Unfortunately no recoid 
of the grant of these swamp lots is now to be 
found, but it is clear that William Read was 
not entitled by length of residence to share in 
that grant at the time, and the lot was now 
given as a special cor cession to his widow and 
family. In the First Division, " beginninge on 
Brauntry Line," December 14, 1663, the 
" Widow Read" was given 10 acres (Lot No. 
13), and in the Second Division, 30 acres (Lot 
No. 4). 



She was apparently living December 19, 
1670, when the " Land of the Widdow Avis 
Reel " is mentioned in a conveyance by John 
Whitman of Weymouth, to John Vining (Suf- 
folk Deeds, XI, pp. 183-184). No estate of 
William Read or of his widow Avis is found 
in the Probate Office, nor do either of them 
appear in the land records, either as grantor or 
grantee. While there is some ground for the 
belief that this Weymouth William and his 
wife, Avis, were identical with "William 
Retd "who married at Long Sutton, Somerset- 
shire, October 26, 1635, " Avis Chepman of 
Knole,"it must be remembered that no proof of 
this has yet been obtained, and the history of 
this couple for the period 1636-1653 is unknown. 
(See Reade Record, No. IV, pp. 34.) 

The following are believed, for various reas- 
ons, to have been children of William Read 
of Weymouth, but the place and order of their 
birth remains unknown, and possibly the list is 
incomplete: 

1. Margaret, m. May 11, 1657, at Wey- 
mouth, John Vining, who came from Wincan- 
ton, Somersetshire, in 1650. She was probably 
" Margaret, dau. of William Read. " bapt. Jan. 
20, 1635/6, at Long Sutton, Somersetshire ; she 
d. July 6, 1659, at Weymouth, Mass. John 
Vining m. (2) at Weymouth, Jan. 22, 1659/60, 
Mary, dau. of Philip Reed, Sr., of Weymouth. 

2. Hannah, m, Dec. 2, 1658, at Weymouth, 
Nicholas Whitmarsh, res. Weymouth. 

3. Mary, d. Apr. 16, 1655, at Weymouth ; 
unm. 

4. W i lli am, m. Esther, dau. of Lieut. John 
and Mary (Cooke) Tomson, of Middleboro, 
Mass.; res. Weymoutb ; he d testate, 1706. 

5. Ruin, m. Dec. 19, 1662, at Weymouth, 
John Whitman, Jr., and d. the next year. 

6. Thomas, m. Sarah (Bicknell ?) ; d. Nov. 
14, 1719, at Weymouth ; res. Weymouth. 

7. John, b. abt. 1649; d. Jan. 13, 1720/21, 
ae. 72, bur. at Dighton, Mass, ; m. Bethiah 
(Frye?) ; res. Taunton, Mass. 

8. James, b. abt. 1657, d. July 21, 1726, at 
Middleboro ; m. April 18, 1683, at Taunton, 
Susannah Richmond ; res. Middleboro, Mass. 
James and John Read were soldiers in Ring 
Philip's War, 1675-1676, enlisting from Wey- 
mouth. (Bodge, pp. 161-163.) 

The surname of this family was spelt Read 
or Reed on the early records, and the latter is 
the form commonly used by descendants. 

G. s. s. 



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ANCESTORS OF THE SUDBURY 

FAMILY 



READ 




Arms of Colchester, Essex Co., Eng. 
WILL OF THOMAS READ 

In the name of God, Amen. I, 
Thomas Read of Colchester, in the 
County of Essex, Carpenter. * * * * * 
make and ordaine this my last Will 
and Testament. ***** 

First and Principally, I com- 
mend my soule unto the hands of God 
my creator that gave itt, and as con- 
cerning those worldy goods wch it 
hath pleased God to bestow on mee, 
I give bequeath the same in manner 
and forme following: 

First. I give the house in which 1 
now live in the parish of Alsaints in 
Colchester to (1) Thomas Read, my 
sonne, now liveing in new England in 
America- To hold to him and the 
heirs of his body forever if he lives 
comes over unto England to enjoy itt. 
And in case he shall not bee living to 
come over to enjoye it then my will 
and mynd is that the same shall bee 
sold by my Executors to the best ad- 
vantage that may bee. And the 
moneyes thereof ariseing to be cair- 
fully conveyed over to him to be fru- 
gally layed out there in new- England 
to purchase land or an Annuity for 
him and his wife for life. And after 
their decease to the use of his children 
and their heires. And in case he shall 
not now be alive or have noe child or 
children to enjoye my said house then 
I give the same to be sold to the best 
advantage and the money thereof 
ariseing to be equally distributed 
amongst my children. More I give to 
my said sonne, Thomas Read, the 



somme of seaventy pounds to be paid 
him by my Executors within twelve 
months after my decease. 

Item. I give unto my sonne-in- 
law, (2) Daniel Bacon, now living in 
new England in America and Mary, 
his wife, my daughter, the somme of 
three hundred and twenty pounds to 
be carefully laid out in new England 
to purchase land or an Annuity to her 
my said daughter for her life and 
after her decease to the use of all her 
children, that shall then be living at 
her decease to be Equally devided 
betweene them, parte and parte alike 
or in case my said sonne-in-lawe, 
Daniel Bacon, his wife and children, 
shall happen to come over to live in 
England then I will and my mynd is 
that the somme of three hundred 
twenty pounds shall soe be disposed of 
and layd out in lands here in England 
to the use aforesaid. Alsoe I give to 
all my grand children the children of 
the said Daniel Bacon and Mary, my 
daughter, live pounds a peece to be 
paid to them which are of age within 
six months after my decease. And 
to them which are sonnes now under 
age when they shall be of age of one 
and twenty yeares or dayes of mar- 
riage. And my will mind is that if 
Thomas Read, my sonne shall come 
over to live in England to enjoye his 
said Legacie and shall set his estate 
there and shall paye the same to my 
sonne-in-law, the said Daniel Bacon, 
to be layd out as the legacy above to 
him is herein given. Then I doe ap- 
point my Executors herein to pay to 
my said sonne or his assignes here in 
England the somme which he shall 
have so paid to my sonne-in-law the 
said Daniel Bacon in new England 
for the use aforesaid the same not 
exceeding the somme on one hundred 
pounds to be laid out and disposed of 
here for the benefit of him and his 
child or children. 



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Item. I give and bequeath unto 
my daughter (3) Rachel Hocker, 
the somme of two hundred and 
seaventy pounds to be laid out upon 
a purchase of land to be settled upon 
Joseph Hocker * and Rachel, his 
wife for their lives. * * * And after 
their decease to the children of the 
body of said Rachel. * * * * 

Item. I give bequeath all my 
household goods, aslynnen woolen, 
brasse, bedding, Pewter and all other 
implements of household whatsoever 
to my children, Thomas Read, Isaac 
Read and Rachel Read, [Hocker] 
to be equally shared and parted 
amongst them. 

Item. Whereas my brother, 
(4) George Read hath receaved of my 
monies in London twelve pounds 
which he should have paid to mee, my 
will and mind is and I doe hereby give 
to my said brother the said twelve 
pounds. * * * * 

Item. I give to Thomas Read, 
my brother George Read's sonne, the 
somme of five pounds * * * * at the 
age of one and twenty yeares. * * * * 

Item. All other my lands and tene- 
ments, mortgages to me forfeited or 
not forfieted and stocke not before be- 
queathed I give and bequeath the same 
to my sonne, (5) Isaacke Read * * * 

And I do Hereby nominate and 
appoint my said sonne, Isaac and 
John Clarke of Buttolphes parish, 
gardiner to be Executor of this my 
last will and testament. * * * * 

And Lastly, I give unto the poore 
of Alsaints parish in Colchester forty 
shillings, to the poore of the parish of 
Saint James five pounds, to the poore 
of the' parish of Buttolphes in Col- 
chester five pounds and to the poore 
of the parish of St. Giles in Colchester 
five pounds and to the poore of Saint 
Nicholas in Colchester three pounds. 
# # * 

In Witness Whereof, I have sett 
my hand and sett my scale ; this thir- 
teenth dav of July in the yeare of our 
Lord. 1665. * * * 
The Mark x of Thomas Read. 



Sealed, published and delivered in 
the presence of us, * * * * 

Thomas Lucas 
John Waterhouse. 

A. Codicil to be as parte of my 
within written will and so to bee taken. 

Memorandum. I doe further give 
and bequeath unto the within named, 
Joseph Hocker and Rachel, his 
wife, that my house with the appur- 
tenances at Saint Johns Greene in 
Colchester in the parish of Saint Giles 
in Colchester. * * * 

Witness my hand and seale the day 
and yeare within written. * * * * 
Thomas Read. 

Sealed * * * and so delivered in 
ence of me. 

Thomas Lucas. 

Probate made at London, March 3rd, 
1665-6, by Isaac Read and John Clarke, 
Executors. Recorded Somerset House, 
Book Mico p. 51. 

Will copied by the late, well known New 
England Genealogist, Mr. Henrv F 
Waters, for Alanson H. Reed", a lineal 
descendant. 

( 1 ) Thomas Read 1 bapt. St. Nicholas 
parish, Colchester, Essex Co., England, Oct. 
19. 1627, is first noted in New England, on 
the Town Record of Sudbury, Mass., May 
28, 1655, when it was voted that he should 
"be put out of the last rate levyed for the 
meeting house." 

The Parish Register of St. Nicholas 
Colchester, has the following entry: 

"1627. Thomas, son of Thomas Read 
and Rachel, his wyfe was baptized the 19th 
day of October." 

"The Register of Admissions to the 
Royal Grammar School of Colchester, 
Essex Co., England," 1637-1740. "Thomas 
Reade, eldest son of Thomas Reade Car- 
penter (habrilignari) Born in St. Nicholas, 
Colchester. In his 12th year. Admitted 
March 1639-0." No additional informa- 
tion is had, concerning him until his name 
appears upon the Town Record of Sud- 
bury, Mass., in 1655 as an inhabitant of 
that place. 

1 2 ) Daniel Bacon 2 , second son of 
Michael 1 of Dedham, Mass., was in Charles- 
town in 1639 and subscribed December 
18th, 1640 to the Town Orders for the then 
projected Town of Woburn to which place 
he removed. 

Daniel was born about 1615 and Mary 
his wife about 1620. Their children were 
all born in Woburn. Between 1661 and 
1664 he removed to Bridgewater. In 1669 



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he removed to Cambridge, where both he 
and his wife died in 1691. 

(3) Rachel, wife of Joseph Hocker, evi- 
died before he did and they had no children 
living, it would seem from the following 
entry in the "Act Book 1663-1666, in the 
Commissary Court of London (Essex and 
Herts.) :" 

"1. December, 1665 Administration on 
the goods of Joseph Hocker of the Parish 
of St. Nicholas was granted to James 
Fromentile, his next of kin." 

(4) Diligent search has afforded no fur- 
ther information in regard to this Brother 
George and his son Thomas. They may 
have been residents of London -at the time 
of the bequest. 

(5) The Register of Admissions to the 
Royal Grammar School of Colchester, Co. 
Essex, Eng. has the following entry: 
"Isaac Read, youngest son of Thomas 
Read, Carpenter. In his 8th year. Ad- 
mitted 16th Sept., 1644. as a free scholar." 

The Register of Corpus Christi College, 
Cambridge, Eng. contains the following 
entry: "1651, May 20, Isaac Reade of 
Essex admitted as a poor scholar. Tutore 
Drs. Pepys." [Translation from the 
Latin] 

The Register of Caius and Sonville Col- 
lege has the following entry — [Transla- 
tion.] — Isaac Reade, son of Thomas, of 
Colchester, in County of Essex, admitted 
first in the College of Corpus Christi, thru 
admitted to the College of our poor schol- 
ars, Sept. 23. 1652. * * * 

Isaac was born in Colchester in 1636, 
and was Rector of All Saints in Wrabness, 
Co. Essex, in 1660 (Xewcourte Repe- 
torium) and died there in 1696. 

It is noted in Moran's History of Col- 
chester that it maintained free scholar- 
ships at Cambridge for the benefit of its 
citizens. So it is possible that Isaac Read 
was thus educated for the ministry. 

A. H. R. 




Arms of Sudbury, Mass , U.S.A. 

WILL OK THOMAS READE 

(Reade List No. 20 1 

These may certifie to all persons 
whom soever; that I, Thomas Reed,§ 



Sen. of Sudbury in the County of 
Midlessdex, in the Province of the 
Massachusetts Bay in New England 
Being at this Present time well in my 
understanding, though weak in body 
upon the account of Illness, I am 
Laboring under, and from whence 
being sensible of My great last 
change ; Doe make constitute and ap- 
point this My Last Will and Testa- 
ment disannulling all other Will or 
Wills Testament or Testaments by 
me acted made done or performed 
heretofore, and this only to be of force 
and power. 

Witness, In the first place, I com- 
mit my Spirit unto My Glorious Re- 
deemer, that through the Riches of 
Grace, it may live with him forever; 
and in the next place my body unto 
the dust to have a decent burial : And 
further as touching my worldly estate 
which God hath Blest me with (my 
debts and funeral charges being 
payed) My mind and will is: 

In the first place, that my beloved 
wife Arrabella Reed be well and 
comfortably maintained out of it. dur- 
ing her life, unless she marry again; 
Alsoe I give and bequeath unto my 
only son Thomas Reed, the moyety or 
one halfe of my meadow known and 
called by the name of Moresas 
Meadow, to be his forever. And my 
great Bible and Anotations. Allsoe I 
give and bequeath to my cousen, 
*John Bacon, of Watertown, four 
pounds, to be payed two years after 
my decease. Allsoe I give and be- 
queath to the youngest son of my 
above named Thomas fourty shillings 
when he comes of age. Allsoe I give 
and bequeath to the rest of my saved 
Son's children, twenty shillings, each 
child to be payed three years after my 
decease. As for the rest and whole 
of all my estate, as housing Lands, 
( Mchards fields. Meadows. Woods, 
Chattal. moveables, etc., I give and 
bequeath them unto my beloved grand- 
son, Thomas Reed, to him and his 
Heirs forever ; and this to my full 



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15 



satisfaction, is my Last Will and Tes- 
tament ; so I declare constitute and 
appoint my above said beloved grand- 
son, Thomas Reed, sole Executor of 
this my Last Will and Testament. 

Made this 9th day of September, 
1701. Thomas Reade, [Seal] 
Signed, Sealed, Delivered in presence 
of us, 
James Sherman, Samuell How, 
Edmund Bouker. 

Superadded. The interlining line 
15, concerning the gift of his great 
Bible, and brodats Annotations to his 
Son was declared as his will and 
mind before signing, sealing and de- 
livery : as wee the witnesses Attest : 

Charlestowne, October 6th, 1701. 
By the Hon. James Russell, Esq., 
Mr. James Sherman, Sam'l Howe 
and Edmund Bouker, the witnesses 
subscribed personally appearing made 
oath, that they were prsonally present 
and saw the subscriber, Thos. Read, 
Deced. sign and seal and heard him 
publish declare the above written, to 
be his last Will and Testament, and 
that when he did so he was of a dis- 
posing mind. J. A. Russell. 

(Reg. Prob., Middlesex Co., Vol. 10 ) 



He m. ( 1 ) {Catherine b. about 

1628 and d. 26 Sept., 1677. 

They had so far as known onlv one son, 
Thomas 2 , (b. about 1649 and d. about 1730) 
who m. May 30. 1677, Mary Goodrich (b. 
Dec. IS, 1650 and d. Oct. 2, 1724) dau. of 
John of Wethersfield, Conn. 

He m. (2) .March 7th. 1677, Mary Wood, 
b. d. . Wid. of Michael of Con- 
cord. No issue. 

He m. ( 3 ) Dec. 29, 1689. Wid. Arabella 
Thong, (i.e.Tong-Tongue) b. 1646, d. April 
29, 1717. No issue. 

In her will she gave her negro maid, 
Frank, her freedom and all her personal 
estate. 

Thomas Read, Senr. lived on the West 
Side of Sudbury River on lands purchased 
from his Kinsman, Pastor Edmund Browne 
in 16SS. and was the first settler in the 
hamlet known as Lanham. He died Sep- 
tember 13, 1701. 

♦"Cousen John Bacon of Watertown." 
was a son of Daniel Bacon and his wife, 
(Mary Read) sister to Thomas Read, Senr. 
of Sudbury. It is through the entailment 
of lands upon Mary and her children, in 
accordance with the will of her Father, 



Thomas, in England, that the English an- 
cestry of Thomas of Sudbury is established. 

The 20th, Sept., 1661. A deed from 
Thomas Read of Sudbury Carpenter to 
Mathew Gibbs of Sudbury Husbandman, is 
witnessed by Daniel Bacon and William 
Pearse. Middx. Reg. D. Vol. XII. p. 6. 

The 29th of November, 1670. A deed 
from Michael Bacon, Junior, of Woburn to 
Daniel Bacon, Senior, of New Cambridge, 
is witnessed by Thomas Read and Thomas 
Walker. Middx. Reg. D. Vol. 4, p. 179. 

The 10th of January, 1678, Daniel Bacon, 
then living in Cambridge, in a deed to his 
son Jacob Bacon, recites, "know ye that I 
Daniel Bacon of Cambridge, in observance 
of the last will and Testament of Thomas 
Read, late of Colchester in the countie of 
Essex, in Old England, deceased, with ref- 
ference unto my children by my wife, 1 Mary 
Bacon, daughter of the sd Thomas Read, 
have given * * * unto my son, Jacob Bacon, 
one parcell * * * of land * * * within the 
limmitts of Watertowne, * * * conteyning 
* * * five and a half acres. * * * January 10, 
1678. Middx. Reg. D. Vol. 10. p. 579. 

"Elias Read." 

Note — The author of the "History of the 
Reed Family" pub. 1861 erroneously gives 
one "Elias Read" as the original immigrant 
(p. 272) and William, Philip and Thomas 
(of Sudbury, p. 286) as his sons. 

As a matter of fact there was not at any 
time in the early history of New England 
an immigrant by the name of Elias Read. 
That was a mistake made in copying the 
name of Esdras and transforming it into 
"Elias." This matter has been explained at 
length in an article by the Secretary, 
Alanson H. Reed, printed in the Gen. 
Register, Vol. 63, p. 200. Esdras was an 
original immigrant and resident in Salem 
in 1639 and subsequently in Woburn. He 
was a tailor by trade. 

The William, supposed son of the myth- 
ical "Elias" was in fact that William Read, 
an immigrant who came from New Castle- 
on-Tyne in 1635 (see Hottens List) and was 
the progenitor of the Woburn Read family. 
Had no relation to Esdras. 

The Philip, supposed son of "Elias" was 
in fact the well known Dr. Philip Reade of 
Concord, who came to New England about 
1660, according to a deposition made by 
himself. 

The Thomas of Sudbury, supposed son 
of "Elias" (p. 286) was in fact that Thomas 
Read from Colchester, Eng., prior to 1655, 
whose will is given above and who died in 
Sudbury 1701. 

This unfortunate error has been copied from 
the "Hist of the Reed Fam. and widely dissem- 
inated in the genealogies printed since. It is 
the work of the Reade Society to correct such 
errors. A. H. R. 



16 



THE READE RECORD 



WILLIAM REED 

STRATFORD AND NORWALK, CONN. 

(Reade List No- 141 

Estate Inventoried 1658 

In bedding and household 

stuffs 01-14-00 

In clothing 01—16—00 

In tools 01-19-10 

In 02—10—00 

In cows 04—17—03 

In corn 01-00-00 

A debt Inv. to him 01—00—00 

14_17_ 01 

A true account of the debts what 
doe appear of William Reed 14 — 17 
— 02 from [of] Norwalk by whose 
names are under written 

Nathaniel Richards 
Walter Hoitt 

At a Court hold at Fairfield 
[Conn.] the 20th October, 1659. 

The inventory of the estate of Wil- 
liam Reed deceased of Norwalk was 
this day exhibited to the Court and 
he dying intestate the Court orders 
that Isaac Moore and Walter Hoitt 
are appointed Administrators to ad- 
minister the sayd estate as far as the 
estate will [allow] to pay [the] debts. 
William Hill. 

Note— The information concerning Wil- 
liam Read of Stratford and Norwalk is 
very scanty and leaves much to be desired. 
The "History of Stratford" by the Rev 
Samuel Orcutt records a "William Read 
among the first settlers in Stratford » 
before 1650 * * * [but who] removed to 
* * * Norwalk. Inventory reported to Pro- 
bate Court [in Fairfield] Oct. 20 1659. in 
which he is said to be of Norwalk Conn. 
He doubtless had other children than his 
son William here given * * * [?<- if ?\) n S to . 
William of Fairfield whose will follows.] 

Note is made (pp. 104-5) of the First In- 
habitants and their Home Lots' and a map 
shown of "Stratford in 1660" in which Lot 
39 is assigned to William Read. This map 
was first constructed by the Rev B. L. 
Swan and has been carefully revised by the 
deeds of the first settlers "* * * William 
Read [and others werel here but soon re- 
moved." (p. 188) and explains that the 
town lots when first laid out were called 
"Home lots" but when built upon were then 
called "House lots." There seems to be no 



evidence that William Read ever owned a 
house in Stratford. It is evident he moved 
to Norwalk, for in the "Norwalk, Conn., 
Records" (by Hall, pub. 1847) p. 18. it is 
noted that "In a List of Accounts 1654 are 
the following names * * * * and in 1656 - 
the following: Owen Morgan, William 
Reid. 

In the Hist, of Norwalk (by Selleck) p. 
79, it is stated that "The underneath roll 
dated March 20th, 1656, "of the names of 
inhabitants that are to attend the Town 
Meetings" is valuable in that it is the doc- 
umentary Census of the Male residents of 
lawful age, of Norwalk up to that time. 
| Names with others] * * * Walter Hoyt 

* * * Isaac Moore * * * William Reed 

* * * Nathaniel Richards. 

It will be seen bv the inventory above 
that William Read died two years later and 
that Nathaniel Richards and Walter Hoitt, 
who made the inventory, and Isaac Moore 
and Walter Hoitt, who were appointed ad- 
ministrators of the estate, were all residents 
of Norwalk, thus testifying to the residence 
oi William Reed himself at time of his 
decease. The different spellings of his 
name— Read, Reid, Reed— count for little, 
as in those days the clerks spelled names 
in any way that sounded best to them. But 
now comes one serious matter for reflection. 
It will be seen that not one item of evi- 
dence is given that the William of Strat- 
ford and Norwalk had a son William or 
any other children. Nor. in fact, that he 
had even a wife! Even in the probating of 
the inventory of his estate no mention is 
made of wife or child, which is usually the 
case when such exist. Even if the wife had 
died before, a guardian would have been 
appointed for anv minor child or children. 
It will be noted that the estate was prac- 
tically insolvent and not likely to pay the 
debts. In such case no guardian would be 
needed to preserve property for minor 
heirs. Again, we do not know the age of 
William of Norwalk, and it may be that 
his child or children, if he had any living 
at time of his decease, were all of age and 
so needed no mention in the probate pro- 
ceedings, since there was no property to go 
to them. . 

But despite confirming evidence, the his- 
torian of Stratford states (as noted above) 
that William Read of Stratford had a son 
in that William Reed of Fairfield, a neigh- 
boring town, whose will probated there in 
1697. follows on the next page, to which 
consideration will now be given. 

The original will is not on file in the 
Fairfield Probate Court. The indices show 
that there was an inventory filed, also ap- 
proval of the inventory and receipt of the 
widow's claim on the estate, but these 
papers, or copies of them, are now seem- 
inglv ncm-existent 



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17 



WILLIAM REED, FAIRFIELD, CONN. 

Will, 1697 

Know all men by these presents 
that I William Reed of Fairfield in 
ye County of Fairfield in ye Collony 
of Connecticut in Newengland have & 
do by these presents give & grant unto 
my loving son John Reed ye one half 
of my personal and movable estate 
whereof I am now possessed to be to 
him his heirs and successors for ever 
as my free gift to be distributed to 
sons hereafter mentioned ; also I give 
unto my daughter Sarah Barlow one 
quarter part of my personall estate to 
be to her and her heirs forever as my 
free gift ; also I give to my daughter 
Abegaile Reed ye remaining quarter 
part of my said estate to be to her and 
her heirs as my free gift forever; and 
I do hereby desire & impower my 
loving friend sergt. John Thomas of 
said Fairfield forthwith to distribute 
my sd. estate to ye persons and ac- 
cording to ye provisions before men- 
tioned. In witness whereof I have 
hereunto set my hand and seall this 
7th day of May 1697, it is to be noted 
yt my said daughter Sarah, myst 
[must] and shall allow out of her 
quarter part what she hath of law 
received or ye value thereof. 

William Reed (Seal) 

Signed sealled and delivered in pre- 



sence of 



John Wakeman 
Josiah Harvey 



Note — Here we are on firmer ground, as 
it may be inferred from the dates of the 
birth of his wife in 1652 and of his chil- 
dren that William of Fairfield was him- 
self born about 1650. He married 

(1) Deborah Baldwin 2 (Nathaniel 1 ) b. 

1652. (Baldwin Gen. p. 1082.) 

(2) Mary, wid of John Bostwick, and dau. 

of John Brinsmade. 
Children by the first wife : 

1. Sarah, b. (?) 1675: m. (?) Joseph 

Barlow. 

2. Abigail, b. 1677. 

3. John, b. at Fairfield Jan. 29, 1679, (F T 

Rec.) He m. Ruth. dau. of Lieut. 
John Talbot of Hartford, Conn. Sub- 



sequently removed to Boston, Mass. 
Was one of the most celebrated 
lawyers in New Eng. and known as 
the Hon. John Read. He died in 
Boston 1748. (See Reade Record 
No. V.) For account of his son, 
Col. John Read of Redding, Conn., 
1699-1786, see article in another 
column by Mr. George S. Stewart, 
our genealogist. 
"At a special Court of Oyer and Ter- 
miner, held at Fayrefield September 19th, 

1692" William Reed was one of the 

grand jurors who presented a bill of in- 
dictment in a witchcraft case. (Hist. Strat- 
ford, p. 152.) 

Recorded 2 Sept., 1693, in Fairfield Town 
Deeds, land conveyed by him to his daugh- 
ters, Sarah and Abigail, and to his "loving 
son John." (Hist. Fairfield, p. 402.) No 
evidence has as yet been produced to show 
that William Reed of Fairfield was ever a 
resident of either Stratford or Norwalk, or 
that he was a son of William Read of 
Stratford as asserted by the historian of 
that town, though it is possible such may 
have been the case. 

A. H. R. 



THE UNSEEN SHORE 

Sometime at eve, when the tide is low, 
I shall slip my mooring and sail away, 
With no response to the friendly hail 
Of kindred craft in the busy bay. 
In the silent hush of the twilight pale, 
When the night stoops down to embrace the 

day. 
And the voices call in the water's flow — 
Sometime at eve, when the tide is low — 
I shall slip my mooring and sail away. 

Through purple shadows that darkly trail 
O'er the ebbing tide of the unknown sea, 
I shall fare me away with a dip of sail 
And a ripple of waters to tell the tale 
Of a lonely voyager sailing away 
To mvstic isles, where at anchor lay 
The craft of those who have sailed before 
O'er the unknown sea to the unseen shore. 

A few who have watched me sail away 
Will miss my craft from the busy bay, 
Some friendly barks that were anchored 

near — 
Some loving souls that my heart held dear 
In silent sorrow will drop a tear. 
But I shall have peacefully furled my sail 
In moorings sheltered from storm or gale, 
And greeted the friends who have sailed 

before 
O'er the "Unknown Sea" to the "Unseen 
Shore." 

(Boston Transcript.) 



Cot{ 



18 



THE READE RECORD 



Hon. THOMAS B. REED OF MAINE 
1839 - 1902 

Much interest has been manifested 
in the ancestry of this noted member 
of the Reed family and it is a matter 
of regret that his Reed lineage has 
been traced only as far as his great- 
grandfather, John Reed (or Read), of 
York, Me., prior to the Revolution. 
To our knowledge, no record has yet 
been found of the birth, marriage, 
death, or parentage of this John Reed 
of York. 

Hon. Thomas Brackett Reed 
was born in Portland, Me., Oct. 18, 
1839 and died in Washington, D. C, 
Dec. 6, 1902. He was the son of 
Thomas Brackett and Matilda Prince 
(Mitchell) Reed. His father was a 
mariner and was thrice married, his 
first wife being the mother of the 
statesman. 

Thomas Brackett Reed, Sr., was 
born Aug. 24, 1803, at Peak's Island, 
Me., and died in 1883, eldest son of 
Joseph and Mary (Brackett) Reed. 
He married first in 1838, Matilda 
Prince, daughter of Capt. Nathaniel 
as Sarah ( Bucknam) Mitchell, of 
North Yarmouth, Me. He married 
second, Feb. 5, 1870, Susan Jones of 
Portland; and third, in 1875, Mabel 
Anna Burlee of Portland. 

Joseph Reed, grandfather of the 
Hon. Thomas B. Reed, was born in 
York, Me., Apr. 7, 1770, and died on 
Peak's Island, Portland Harbor, Apr. 
1, 1852, son of John and Lydia 
(Weare) Reed. He married Nov. 10, 
1796, Mary Brackett, born 1776, died 
Nov. 13, 1860, daughter of Thomas 
and Jane (Hall) Brackett of Fal- 
mouth and Peak's Island. 

They lived on Peak's Island and 
had ten children, five sons and five 
daughters, viz. : 

1. Mary, b. Apr. 24. 1800: d. Nov. 
18, 1883 ; m. Jan. 19, 1822, Walter S. 
Hatch, who d. Feb. 12, 1865. Res. 
Portland, Me. 

2. Elizabeth, b. Feb. 3, 1802; m. 
1823, Nathaniel S. Millet. 



3. Thomas Brackett b. Aug. 24, 
1803 ; mentioned above as father of 
the statesman. 

4. Joseph b. Apr. 28, 1806 ; m„ and 
had sons, Joseph and George W. 

5. lane, b. June 13, 1807; d. Nov. 
11, 1891 ; m. July 13, 1829, Melzar T. 
Dillingham of Minot, Me. He d 
Feb. 17, 1879. 

6. Smith., b. Jan. 20, 1809. 

7. William b. Oct. 18, 1811. 

8. Daniel C. b. Apr. 22, 1813. 

9. Lydia W. b. Oct. 18, 1814; m. 
1841, Abraham T. Sterling. 

10. Emeline P. b. Aug. 10, 1819; 
m. 1841. William S. Trefethen. 

John Reed, (or Read), of York, 
Me., was probably born 1735-1740, 
and married certainly as early as 
1766, Lydia Weare, daughter of 
Joseph and Miriam (Grover) Weare 
of York. Her parents were married 
in York. Aug. 4, 1743; her father, 
Joseph Weare was born there, Oct. 
15, 1718, son of Hopewell and Lydia 
(Young) Weare. Only two children 
of John and Lydia (Weare) Reed 
are recorded at York, viz.: Lydia, 
born Nov. 9, 1767; and Joseph born 
Apr. 7, 1770, mentioned above. There 
were doubtless several other children 
but their names are unknown to the 
writer. A John Read was a member 
of the York train band, Apr. 28, 1757, 
under Capt. Thomas Bragdon, but 
his identity has not been established. 

Sept. 14, 1767, "John Read of York, 
labourer, and Lydia, his wife, in her 
right" sell land in York which had 
been "set off to Hopewell Weare, de- 
ceased" and Miriam Weare. "mother 
of the within named Lydia Read" re- 
linquished her dower rights in this 
property Feb. 20, 1768. (York- 
County Deeds, Vol. 41. p. 34; ab- 
stract made by Miss M. B. Fairbanks) 
Tohn and Lvdia sold other land in 
York, Feb. 24. 1771. John Reed died 
before 1790, for when the first U. S 
Census was taken, his widow, Lydia 
Reed, is named as the head of a 
family in Berwick, Me., consisting of 
one male, over sixteen, and one, under 



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that age, and three females ; probably 
two sons and two daughters. Very 
likely there were other children who 
married or died before this date. 
Ebenezer Warren and Hannah Reed, 
both of Berwick, were married by 
Rev. John Thompson, Jan. 1788. The 
widow. Lydia (Weare) Reed is said 
to have died in Eliot, Me., at the age 
of ninety-eight. 

The name Reed appears on the 
York records quite early for a 
"daughter of John Read, died Mar. 
13, 1727 8, aged about 4 years"; Apr. 
27, 1751, John Reed and Martha 
Beedle, both of York, published their 
intention of marriage, but afterwards 
changed their minds and did not 
marry. There is then, some prob- 
ability that the ancestors of the later 
John may have resided in York some 
forty years before his name appears. 



The suggestion of Mr. McCall, 
who wrote the "Life of Thomas B. 
Reed," that his first American an- 
cestor was perhaps Col. Thomas 
Reade of Salem, (1636), is readily 
shown to be without foundation, for 
it is now known that Col. Thomas 
returned to England before 1642, 
married there and had six children, 
none of whom ever came to New Eng- 
land. The Jacob Read of Salem, 
whom he also mentions as a possible 
ancestor, was the son of another 
Thomas, whose family record is 
given in No. VI of the Reade Record 
I p. 9), but the connection of this 
Jacob with the York family has never 
been established, and his will, pub- 
lished elsewhere in this paper, seems 
to indicate that he had but one sur- 
viving son, Jonathan Read, of Smith- 
field, R. I. g. s. s. 



LINEAGE OF Gen. PHILIP READE 

President of the Reade Society 

1. Thomas Read, 1656-1730, of Chelmsford, 

Mass., a soldier in King Philip's War, 
1676 ; a member of the West Middlesex 
regt., 1692 ; m. 1679, Hannah, dau. of Dea. 
John and Elizabeth (Hills) BLANCHARD 
of Chelmsford (Reade List No. 35). 
(For sketch see Reade Record No. V, 
pp. 10-12.) 

2. William Read, 1695-1753, b. Chelmsford; 
d. Litchfield, N.H. ; a grantee of Tyngs- 
town, N.H., 1735: res. Chelmsford and 
Westford, Mass., and Litchfield, N.H. ; m. 
1720, Hannah, dau. of John and Deborah 
Bates of Chelmsford. 

3. Capt. William Read, b. Chelmsford, 

Feb. 25, 1724 / 5 ; d. Litchfield, N.H., Jan. 
17, 1769 ; served in the N.H. troops, French 
and Indian Wars; res. Litchfield, N.H. ; 
m. Lucy Spalding of Chelmsford, dau. 
of Henry and Lucy (Proctor) Spalding. 

4. William Read, b. Litchfield. N.H. , June 
25, 1758; d. there Jan. 26, 1829; served in 
the Revolution; res. Litchfield. N,H.; m. 
Lydia B, Nourse 

5. Henry Read, b. Litchfield, July 2, 1804; 
d. Lowell, Mass., Aug. 2, 1878 ; res. New 
Boston, N.H., and Lowell ; m. Dracut, 
May 2, 1833, Rowena Hii.dueth. 

6. Gen. Philip Reade, b. Lowell, Mass., 
Oct. 13, 1844; Brigadier General, retired, 
U.S.A. ; President of the Reade Society. 

It will be seen that our President and Treas- 
urer are descended from the same ancestors 
(1) Thomas Read' and (2) William Read, 
of Chelmsford. 



LINEAGE of CHARLES FRENCH READ 
Treasurer of the Reade Society 

1. Thomas Read, 1656-1730, of Chelmsford, 

Mass. ; m. 1679, Hannah Blanchard, of 
Chelmsford. (Reade List, No. 35) 

2. W ILLIAM Read, 1695-1753, of Chelmsford, 
Westford, and Litchfield, N.H. ; m. 1720, 
Hannah Bates, of Chelmsford. 

3. Col. Robert Read, b. Chelmsford, Dec- 

25, 1720, d. Amherst, N.H., Sept. 11, 1803; 
m. Andover, Mass., May 11, 1743, Mary, 
dau. of Kphraim and Sarah (Crosby) Ab- 
bott. He was an officer in the French and 
Indian Wars; appointed Lieutenant-Col- 
onel by the N.H. Legislature, Nov. 2, 
1775 ; res. Amherst, N.H. 

4. William Read, b. Souhegan West (now 
Amherst), N.H., Aug. 14, 1754, d. there 
Sept. 10,1834; a soldier of the Revolution, 
present at Battle of Bunker Hill; m, 
Bridget, dau. of Fzekiel and Esther (Love- 
well) Greeley, of Nottingham West, N.H. 

5. Robert Read, b. Amherst, Oct. 18, 1785, 
d. there Mar. 10, 1857 ; m. Amherst, Dec. 

16, 1818, Rebecca, dau. of Frederick and 
Rebecca (Blanchard) French. 

6. Dr. William Read, b. Amherst, Jan. 29, 
1820, d. Boston, May 6, 1889 ; grad. Dart- 
mouth College and Harvard Med. School ; 
m. Boston, June 22, 1843, Sarah A. F., 
dau. of Isaac and Eliza (Hull) McLellan. 

7. Charles French Read, b. Boston, Sept. 

17, 1853; Clerk and Treasurer of the Bos- 
tonian Society, Old State House, Boston; 
President of the Mass. Society, S.A.R.; 
Vice-President of the National Society, 
S.A.R.; m. Oct. 24, 1887, Mary, dau. of 
Joseph and Elizabeth (Bickerstaff) Comer, 
res. Brookline. 



LIFE MEMBERS OF THE READE SOCIETY 



Andbews, Mrs. Ella R. New York, 

Crane, Joshua E. Bridgewater, 

Goodrich, Mrs. Ella R. Hartford, 

Hodges. Miss Mary A. Foxboro, 

Larkin, Mrs. Prances Hubbard Buffalo, 
Lefeerts. Marshall C. New York, 

Morton, Mrs. Florence E. Reed Worcester, 



Morse. Willaed S. 
Read, Charles F. 
Read, Miss Clara A. 

READ, EjDMUND S. 

Read, Miss Ella II. 
Read, Franklin 
Read, George B. 
Read, George \v. 
Read, Joseph 
•Read, Joshua W. 
Read, J. Paulding 
Read, Miss Margaret H. 
Read, Samuel II. 
•Read, Miss Sarah E. 



New York. 

Brookline, 

New Bedford, 

Washington, 

Nfw Bedford, 

Plttsfield, 

Bloomington 

Taunton. 

Summerside, P. 

Newark. 

New fork, 
New Haven, 



N. Y. 

Mass. 
< 'unii 

Mass 

N. Y. 
V 1 
Mass. 
N. Y 
Mass 
Mass. 

D. C 
Mass. 
Mass 

. Ills 
Mass 

E. I. 

N. .1. 
N. Y 
Conn 



•Read, William A. 
•Reade, Edgab S. 
Reads, Philip 
Reed. Alanson II. 
Reed, Charles W. 
Reed. Edgar 
Reed, Miss Ellen A. 
Reed, Horatio m. 
Reed, Rev. Jambs 
Reed, James II. 
Reed, John S. 
Reed, Marion b. 
Heed. Reuben L. 
Reed, Robert C 
Robinson, Mrs. Grace R. 
Storey, Hampton L. 
Warren. Mrs. Catherine 
Waterman, Mrs. Lewis A. 
Wells, Wellington 

* Deceased. 



Boston, 


Mass 


Wellesley Hills. 


Mass 


Boston, 


M;iss 


Worcester, 


Mass 


New Haven, 


Conn 


New York. 


N. Y 


Boston, 


Mass 


Chelsea, 


Mass 


Boston, 


Mass 


Lowell, 


Mass 


South Acton, 


Mass 


Boston, 


Mass 


New York. 


N. Y 


Altadena, 


Calif 


X. Cambridge, 


Mass 


Providence 


K. I 


Boston, 


Mass 



ANNUAL MEMBERS 



Akin. Mrs. Emma R. 
Alley, Jon n s 
Allison. Isaiah 
Bamford, Mrs. Ei.eanora M. 
Blackmer. Mrs. Catherine 
Blanchard, John S. C. 
BLANCHARD, Miss Mary L. 
Blanchard. Miss Susanna R 
BR1 mmer. Mrs. Maih A I 
Champion, William J. 
Clarke. Arthur F. 
CLARKE, Miss Helen (} 
Cross. Mrs. John A. 
Dodd. Rev. Hemiv M 
Ei.wei.i., Mrs. James II. 
Everett. Mrs Charlotte 
Farr. Mrs Virginia R. 
Field. J. Il"» ird 
Fisher, Harlan m 
Fletcher, Harry G. 
Hallett, Frank T. 
Hallett, Miss Sarah N. 

i:d. Mrs. Charles T. 
Ih chart. Mrs. Elizabeth R 

IDTI LRD B. 

Jackson, Mrs. holmes C. 
I | 

Gi ORG! Read 
Kern. Mrs. Catherine R 



s. 



s. 



Kimball, Miss Helen F. 
Kneeland, Benjamin C. B 

I.eyings. Mrs Fi.izaretji Reed 
\.r.\\ is. James E. 

Lewis, Mrs. Josephine R 
Marden, Mrs Harriet A. 

Marshall. Miss Ad.u.ine 
Merri vm, Mrs. P^van B. 
Merkow. Mrs. Rena M. 
M"Rss. Mrs Everett 
Nead. Mrs. Daniel W. 
Norton, Mrs. Joseph A. 
Orcutt. Jason R. 
Parsons. Mrs. Mary A. 
Teat. Miss Helen L. 
Pettee. Mrs. Benjamin 
Prescott, Miss Clara F. 
Preston, Mrs. George C. 

r, Mrs Mary R. 
Raymond. Daniel V. 
Read. Alexander 
Read, Andrew J. 
Read, Charles A. 
Read. CHARLES F 
Read. Clarence F. 
Read. Miss Edith B. 
Read, Edward M 
Ri \ i. Franklin F. 
Read, George R. 
Read, Harold C. 
Read. Henry ('.. Jr. 

Mrs. Hf.nry N. 
Reatj, Cait. Hernando M. 



New York. N. Y. 

l'elhaiu, N. Y 

Taylorvillo. Ills. 

Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 
Tufts College, Mass. 
s. Weymouth, Mass. 
s Weymouth, Mass. 

S. Weymouth, Mass. 

Lisbon, N. 11. 

Boston, Mass 

Brookline, Mass 

Brookline, Mass. 

Providence, R. I. 

Clint. hi. N. Y. 

Weymouth, Mass 
Chicago, in 

Atlanta, Ga. 
Brockton, Mass. 
Holcomb, v i 
West Somervllle, Mas- 
New York, N. Y. 
Providence, R. 1. 
Taunton. Mass. 
San Francisco, I !a 
Cambridge, Mass 

F.asl I ira age, V -I . 

Brookline, Mass 
Boston, Mass, 
n 

Washington, D. C. 

Brookline, Mass. 

Woburn, Mass. 

New York. N. Y. 

Taunton, Mass 

South Duxbury, Mass. 

The Dalles, Ore. 

T. York Village, Me. 

Syracuse, N. Y. 

Maiden, Mass. 

Boston. Mass. 

Reading. Pa. 

Lisbon, N. II. 

South Bralntree, Mass 

Avon Lake. Ohio 

Hudson, N. Y. 

Brookline, Mass. 

Lawrence. Mass. 

Norwich, Conn. 

Scltuate, Mass. 

Thomnkinsville, N Y. 

Santa Fe, N. M. 

Boston, Mass. 

Manchester, 

Worcester, 

Wellsvllle, 

Brookline, 

St. Louis 



W 



Mass. 
Mass. 
N. Y. 
Mass 
Mo. 



Pittsfleld, Mass. 

New York. N. Y. 

Brookline. Mass. 

Cambridge, Mass. 

Brooklyn. N. Y. 

Lexington. Va. 



Read. Miss Margaret Port Elgin, New Brunswick 

Read, Melbourne S. Hamilton. N. Y. 

Reads, Josiah T. Lombard. Ills. 

Read. William Cambridge, Mass 

Reade, Artemis B. Boston, Mass. 

Rfadb, II. Clinton St. John. N. B. 

AARON A. Whitman. Mass. 



M. 



r. 



Boulder, Colo. 

Albany, N. Y. 

Blltmore, N. C. 

West Somerville, Mass. 

Rockford, Ills. 

Dps Moines, Iowa 

Worcester, Mass. 

Westfleld, Mass. 

Whitman, Mass. 

I '(»m Rapids, Iowa 

Charlestown, Mass. 

Buffalo, N, Y. 

Wellesley Hills, Mass. 

Albany, N Y. 

Worcester. Mass. 
Bel lit. Mass. 

North Brookfield, Mass. 
Long Beach, Cal. 



Reed. 

Reed. 
Reed. 
Reed. 
Reed. 
Reed, 
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Reed, 
Reed, 



Reed, 
Reed, 

Reed. 
Reed. 
Reed. 
Rebd, 
Ueed, 



East 



Reed, Albert A. 
Reed, Albert M. 
Reed, Alanson L. 
Reed. Ai.onzo B. 
Reed, Carroll R. 
Reed. Charles Dana 
Reed. Charles K. 
Reed, .Miss Clara 
Heed, Clarence D. 
Reed. DANA 
Reed, Fare It. 
Reed, Edward D. 
Reed. Edward M. 
Reed, Edward T. 
Reed. E. Howard 
Reed. Miss Emily. 
Reed. Eugene W. 
Reed. Miss Flora C. 
Keed. Floyd O. 
Reed. Francis B. 

Fred L. 
J 

George ll. 

G ige M. 

George W. 

Miss Helen LEAn 

Henry B. 

Herbert E. 

Homer J. 
Reed. Howard s. 
Reed. John II. 

J. Russell 

J. Warner, Jr. 

Miss Lillian- 
Miss Lucy II. 

Miss Mae 1. 

Mrs. Margaret 

Marshall 
Reed, Miss Mary S. 
Reed. Miss M. Christine W New York 
Reed, Mildred A. Munroe Bridge, 



E. 



Yonkers, N. Y. 
Weymouth, Mass. 

CohafiSet, Miss. 

Montpelier, Vt. 

Coi rd, N. H. 

Kecne, N. H. 

Boston, Mass 

Cambridge, Mass. 

Auburndale, Mass. 

Boston, Mass. 

Canandalgua, N. Y. 

Phoenix, Arizona 

Amenia, No. Dak. 

Boston, Mass. 

Benton Harbor, Mich. 

Washington, D. C. 

South Weymouth. Mass. 

Columbus, Ohio 



Boston, 

East Whitman. 

I'.iilse. 



Reed, Montgomery 

Reed. Morris A. 
Reed, Ralph D 
Reed, Samuel B. 
Reed, Miss Temperance P. 
Reed, Miss Undine M. 
Reed, Warren A. 
Reed, William B. 
Reed, William E. 
Reed, William F. 
Reed, William H. 
Reed, William Howell 
Reed, Mrs. William H. 
Reed, William R. 
Reid, David S. 
Reid. Rorie Lewis K. C 
Russell. Miss II. Priscilla 
Russell Mrs. Louisa S. 
Sargent, Allan C. 
Sawyer, Mrs. Edward E. 
Simpson, Henry J. 
Smith. Mrs. Samuel F. 
Stevens, Mrs. Sara R. 
Stowell, Mrs. Charles H. 
Taylor, Raymond 
Washburn, Mrs. Alfred F. 
Waterman, Mrs. Jessie 
Webb. Mrs Ellen R. 
Williams. Rt. Rev. G. Mott 



Mass. 
Mass. 
Iilaho 
N. Y. 
Mass. 
Mass 



Boston, 

St. Joseph. Mo. 

Manchester, N. H. 

Boston, Mass. 

New Y'ork, N. Y. 

Boston, Mass. 

Brockton, Mass. 

Westfleld, Mass. 

Washlngtonville, N. Y. 

New York, N. Y. 

Denver, Colorado 

Roxbury, Mass. 

S. Weymouth, Mass. 

New Brunswick, N. J. 

Winston-Salem. N. C. 

Vancouver, B. C. 

Arlington, Mass. 

Arlington, Mass. 

Graniteville, Mass. 

Lowell, Mass. 

Detroit, Mich. 

Newton Centre, Mass. 

Portland. Me. 

Lowell, Mass. 

Weston, Vt. 

Brookline, M;iss. 

Los Angeles, Cal. 

Scltuate. Mass. 

Annapolis, Md. 




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BOSTON. MASS., U.S.A. 



1918 



THE P.EADE SOCIETY 

FOR GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH 
ORGANIZED 1901 INCORPORATED 1914 



Enter thy name in the 

Book of Record 

that it perish not from the 

face of the earth. 




If thou flout thy ancestors 

that gave thee life, 

thou deservest oblivion 

thyself. 



The Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the Reade Society was 
held at the Old State House October 28, 191S, pursuant to 
notice, the usual banquet and social meeting being omitted owing 
to war conditions. 

Gen. Philip Reade, President, called the meeting to order 
and it proceeded to business. 

The Treasurer's report was then read and approved. It 
showed, however, that as with similar societies, the world war 
had had an unfavorable effect upon the finances of the Society 
by limiting the increase in membership. But it was pleasing to 
know that it entered the new year with little or no debt, and a 
substantial amount invested in Liberty Bonds in its permanent 
Life Fund. 

The Secretary's report was then read and approved and 
ordered placed on file. 

A motion then being made and seconded, it was voted in 
the affirmative that Arthur William Read, 10 Westcotes Drive, 
Leicester, England, be elected an honorary member of the Reade 
Society, and that the Secretary send him notice of this action, 
and a certificate of membership. 

The Election of Officers was then held, and resulted in the 
election of the officers of the previous year, for which see page 2. 

The Society then adjourned until the next annual meeting 

in October, 19 19. 

ALANSON H. REED, 

Secretary. 

Boston 9, Mass., October 28, 1918. 



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Value lies in the Content 



Published by 

THE READE SOCIETY 

For Genealogical Research 




Brig.-Gen. PHILIP READE, President 

U.S.A. Retired Boston, Mass. 

CHARLES A. READ, Vice-President 

Manchester, Mass. 
CHARLES F. READ, Treasurer 

Boston, Mass. 
ALANSON H. REED, Secretary 

Boston, Mass. 
GEORGE S. STEWART, Genealogist 

Watertown, Mass. 



ANNUAL MEETINGS 
Fifteen annual meetings of the Reade 
Society have been held in Massachusetts, 
as follows : 

Taunton, Julv 14. 1904. 

Boston, October 12, 1905. 

South Wevmouth, September 27, 1906. 

West Brid'gewater, October 17, 1917. 

Boston. October 28, 1908. 

Boston, October 28, 1909. 

Lexington, October 28, 1910. 

South Weymouth, October 27, 1911. 

Burlington, October 16, 1912. 

Boston. October 30, 1913. 

Boston. October 22, 1914. 

Boston, October 28, 1915. 

Boston, October 31, 1916. 

Boston. October 31, 1917. 

Boston, October 28, 1818. 

YOU ARE INVITED TO JOIN 

Membership fees, one dollar per year, or 
$10 for a Life Membership, exempt from 
future dues should be sent to Charles F. 
Read, Treasurer, Old State House, Boston, 
Mass 



Let it ever be remembered that the 
Reade Record is mailed only to members 
whose dues have been paid. The Society 
is limited in its printing by its income. 

Every dollar is needed to pay the in- 
creased cost of publication. 



The Secretary Says: 

That the Kaiser evidently beard 

of America's only terms of peace named 
in the No. X Reade Record. Uncondition- 
al Surrender, and hastened to accept, lost 
Uncle Sam and the Allied Armies should 
l„. knocking at his door in Berlin! 

All hail to Britain's might; licet 

of warships and the American Navy that 

sank the submarines and penned up the 
Hun warships within their harbors and 
thus established the "Freedom of the 
Seas," die one absolute essential to Vic- 
tory. 

Thai the Siars and Stripes and 

the Onion Jack should ever fly side by 
side, emblematic of Liberty and Civiliza- 
tion. 

That, when a boy, during the 

churcb services he used to look at the 
angels depicted on the walls in brilliant 
colors with only a head and a pair of 
Wings and wonder how they could play 
:i harp in the Heavenly Kingdom, with- 
out hands or feet, or sin;; "hymns of 
praise" without lungs or bellows to pro- 
duce a voice. 

That he wondered how they could 

"light" on anything or anywhere, and so 
remain stationary: hul this he solved to 
his own satisfaction with the explana- 
tion that they had "suckers'' on the in- 
ner side of their wings, similar to the 
leather ones he manufactured for his own 
use in picking up smooth, round stones 
and similar objects, as does every real 
boy in his day. 

- That now in his years of matur- 
ity with the wolf— High Cost of Living— 
at his door, he thinks after till the 
angels' conditions may have their advan- 
taces. 

That with imp need of bodily sus- 
tenance his grocer's and meal market 
hills would he non est. and that with no 
need of clothing the same may he saiil of 
his tailor's and haberdasher's bills, and 
thus another saving be made. 

That with a broad, strong pair of 

wings he could furnish his own means of 
transportation and cut off another item 

of expense. 

That, in a word, he could "Live 

the Simple Life." and have time to use 
his head in thinking up items for the 
next Reade Record. 

That he lias been asked. "When 

does a man begin to show signs of old 
age?" He thinks the answer is, "When 
the man fails to note a dainty miss ne- 
gotiating a muddy street crossing." 

That he wonders why the mem- 

bers of the Reade Society and others who 
join it do not take out more Life Mem 
berships and save themselves the trouble 
of paying future dues, and help at the 
same time to build up the Permanent 
Life Fund. 



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ROBERT READ, OF ALFORD 

CO. LINCOLN, ENGLAND 
BOSTON - EXETER - HAMPTON - NEW ENGLAND, U. S. A. 



By Alanson H. Rt\J 



The Parish Registers of Alford and 
Rigsby, 1538-1680 published by the 
Lincoln Record Society, Vol. 5, com- 
tain the following entries : 

1629 (married) Apr. 30 Robertas 
Reed et Sara Darwin. 

1630 (deceased) Aug. 28 Sara uxor 
Robert Reed. 

1630 (married) Feb. 4, Robertus 
Reed et Rebecca Goose. 

1633 (deceased) June 7th, Rebecca 
uxor Roberti Reade. 

1633 (married) Oct. 2, Robertus 
Reed et Hanna Holland. 

1634 (deceased) Mar. 25, Hannah 
uxor Roberti Read. 

The entries of burials in the Alford 
Parish Register from July 22, 1630 to 
Nov. 9, 1630 are preceeded by the 
entry [Incipit Pestis] (Plague Be- 
gins). Each name, numbering 95 in 
all, has a dot marked against it thus 
marking the victims. It will be seen 
that Robert Read's first wife Sara Dar- 
win was one of them. 

After these entries, Robert Read's 
name disappears entirely from the 
Parish Register, nor is there any will 
of that name in the Lincoln Co. Pro- 
bate Registers. There can be little 
doubt that this speedy marrying and 
much married man was the same Ro- 
bert Read that about 1635 appeared 
in Boston, New England (of whom 
see account following) having on the 
way, or soon after his arrival there, 
picked up a fourth wife, Hannah 
(maiden name unknown), who died 
in 1655 and was succeeded by still 
another, (No. 5) Susanah (maiden 
name unknown) who survived him 
at time of his death in 1657. 

Adjoining Alford is the Parish of 
Bilsby, in the Register of which 



(Phillmore; Vol. X). is recorded the 
marriage of John Read and Elizabeth 
East, 11, May 1625, and Thomas 
Reade and Susan Noble. 5. May 1631. 
It will be >een these entries are of 
the same era as those above concern- 
ing Robert Read and he may have 
come from that Parish to Alford, or 
was related to John and Thomas. It 
was in this same Parish of Bilsby that 
the Rev. John Wheelwright married, 
8, Nov. 1621, Marie Storre, daughter 
of the Vicar Thomas Storre and suc- 
ceeded to the benefice Apr. 2, 1623. 
He buried his wife May 18, 1629, and 
married second, 1629-30, Mary, 
daughter of Edward Hutchinson, of 
Alford. He was superseded as Vicar 
in 1631-32 and went to Boston, New 
England in 1636. Many of his friends 
and adherents followed him. 

Robert Read of Alford may well 
have been one of the number, as we 
find a man of the same name there 
who was a devoted adherent of 
Wheelwright and a member of his 
Church with others from Alford, Bils- 
by and the County of Lincoln. Hence, 
it seems reasonable to believe that in 
the account following this of Robert 
Read of Boston, New England, we 
have the continuation and end of the 
story of Robert Read of Alford — the 
men being one and the same. 

ROBERT READ 
Boston-Exctcr-Hainpton.\635-1657 

(Read List No. 3) 
As stated above in the account of 
Robert Read, of Alford, England, 
there can be little doubt that he was 
identical with the Robert Read of Bos- 
ton, now under consideration. The 
first mention of the latter is found in 
the Boston Town Records: 



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The 30th of the 9th month 
(called November) 1635. 

Att a General Meeting upon pub- 
lique notice. 

Imprimis: It is agreed that noe 
further allotments (of land) shall 
be granted unto any new comers 
but such as may be likely to be 
received members of the congrega- 
tion (the Church in Boston). 
Item : That none shall sell their 
houses or allotments to any new 
comers, but with the consent and 
allowance of those that are ap- 
pointed Allotters (they that lay out 
and assign the lots). 
Item : That all such as have allot- 
ments for habitations alloted unto 
them, shall build thereon before the 
first of the month next, called 
March or else it shall be in the 
power of the allotters to dispose of 
them otherwise. 



The 14th of the 10th moneth (De- 
cember) 1635. 

Item : That the poore sort of the 
Inhabitants, such as are members or 
likely so to be, and have no cattell, 
shall have their proportion of allot- 
ments for planting ground and 
other assigned unto them by Allot- 
ters and layed out at Muddy River 
by the aforenamed five persons or 
four of them : those that fall be- 
tweene the foot of the hill and the 
Water to have but four acres a 
head and those that are farther off 
to have five acres for every head 
(in the family of the grantee), the 
plot to begin next Muddy River 
side. 



The 8th of the 11th month called 

January 1637. 
******* 

Also whereas at a general meeting 
the 14th of the 10th moneth 1635 
it was by general consent agreed 
upon for the laying out of great 
Allotments unto the then Inhabi- 
tants, the same are now brought in 
bounded as f olloweth : 



(Lot) 11. Robert Reade, eight 
acres bounded on the Southeast 
with Ralph Route and the said lit- 
tle marsh, on the Northeast with 
the Charles River running from 
thence toward the South West a 
quarter of a myle in the length to- 
ward the surveyors marke — and on 
Mathew Ives on the North West. 
This tract of land was in the Mud- 
dy River district in which is now the 
Town of Brookline, and near where 
Muddy River joined the Charles and 
was one of a number of other lots 
laid out to others at the same time. 
From the fact that Robert Read was 
assigned a lot it will be seen that he 
was a resident in Boston in 1635 ; 
that he was one of "the new comers 
. . . likely to be received members of 
the Congregation (the Church in Bos- 
ton) ; that as he was granted eight 
acres the amount for "two heads" he 
had a wife but no children, no allow- 
ance being made for them ; and that 
he was one "of the poorer sort of 
the Inhabitants and had noe cattell 
or live stock" since his grant did not 
include suitable marsh meadow or 
grass land. . It will be noted that 
though these allotments of land were 
voted in 1635, yet it was not until 1637 
the surveys had been completed; the 
lots laid out and assigned to each 
owner, the 8th of January. Thus it 
is certain that Robert Read at this 
time was a resident of Boston. But 
he was very soon to make a change. 
As no deed of sale or other convey- 
ance of the land above is of record, 
it is probable that this change led to 
its forfeiture because he did not 
"build thereon before the first of the 
month next, called March" (1638) in 
accordance with the grant. 

AX APOSTLE ARRIVES 
The Rev. John Wheelwright left 
England April 2 and landed in Bos- 
ton May 26, 1636, with his family, 
and at this time was forty-four years 
of age. He was assigned to the care 
of the Church at Mt. Wollaston, a 
district then within the bounds of Bos- 



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ton, but now in Quincy. Anne Hutch- 
inson, wife of William, of Alford, 
England ( the latter a brother of 
Wheelwright's wife Mary) was al- 
ready there and attracting much at- 
tention by advocating the "Covenant 
of jGrace," Salvation of Faith, and 
Spirituality, the free unmerited gift 
of God. . . . She denied the resurrec- 
tion of the body ; and . . . avowed 
the belief . . . that the 'Coming of 
Christ is his coming to us in union.' " 
Her teachings were held as heresy 
by the Clergy, who taught the way of 
Salvation through the "Covenant of 
Work," good deeds performed, Char- 
acter and the "Authority of the Scrip- 
tures" — of course as interpreted by 
themselves. Free Grace held the Old 
Tewish Law in a manner abrogated 
by the New Dispensation and the New 
Testament. The Covenant of Work, 
insisted upon the legality of both 
Scriptures and the literal belief and 
enforcement. It was Mysticism 
against Dogma — Layman versus 
Priest. 
"A SERMON WITH SWORDS" 

On a Fast Day held January 19, 
1636, Wheelwright, who was an ar- 
dent supporter of the "Free Grace" 
doctrines, preached a sermon in which 
he said "We must all prepare for a 
Spiritual Combat" to "keep the Lord 
Jesus Christ ; the children of God 
ought to show themselves valiant ; 
they should have their swords ready ; 
they must fight with spiritual weap- 
ons." 

This was taken in a literal sense 
by the Colony authorities, who thought 
there might be a fanatical uprHng. 

SYNOD CALLED 
"A synod of all the churches, the 
first of its kind in this new world, 
met at New Town (Cambridge), the 
30 August 1637. For three weeks it 
sat in session . . . Wheelwright was 
condemned and Mrs. Hutchinson's 
meetings were agreed to be disorderly 
and without rule. . . . Mrs. Hutchin- 
son said in her defense that "it was 
never in her heart to slight any man. 



but only that man should be kept in 
his own place and not set in the room 
of God," which statement was evi- 
dently taken by the Puritan Ministry 
as an intolerable reflection upon them- 
selves. 

BANISHMENT 
At a meeting of the Great and Gen- 
eral Court held in the month of Nov- 
ember, 1637, a Decree of Banishment 
was issued against Mrs. Hutchinson 
and the Rev. John Wheelwright, the 
latter being ordered to leave the Col- 
ony within fourteen days. His fol- 
lowers and sympathizers were or- 
dered disarmed, and to deliver up "all 
such gunes, pistols, swords, powder 
shot and match as they shall be own- 
ers of, or have in their custody, upon 
paine of ten pounds for ev'y default 
to bee made thereof . . . "(Col. Rec- 
ords Vol. I, p. 311). 

THE DEPARTURE 
"Leaving his wife and children, 
Wheelwright set out (Dec. 1637) with 
some voluntary exiles of his flock for 
Pascatqua, the coast region of what 
is now New Hampshire. It was bit- 
ter cold and the snow lay unusually 
deep so that as he afterwards declared 
it was marvellous he got there at all." 
(Bell in his History of Exeter, says: 
"It is probable he sailed from Boston 
to the mouth of the Pascataqua in 
a coaster belonging to John Clark, af- 
terwards of Rhode Island, one of his 
sympathizers ; and then made his dif- 
ficult way overland to his destina- 
tion.") There he and his compan- 
ions bought a large tract of land of 
the Indians in the Spring of 1638, and 
founded the settlement of Exeter and 
established its first Church. "And 
now in this spring of 1638, Wheel- 
wright's wife with her children and 
his mother, accompanied by other fa- 
milies . . . left to join their husbands 
in the North." (First Quincy 
Church). Bell, in his history of Ex- 
eter, states that they undoubtedly 
went by sail up the coast, as travel 
through the wilderness upon the shore 
was beyond the strength of women 



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and children. They also may have 
been taken in the coaster of John 
Clark, mentioned above. 

ROBERT READ 

Our interest in all this lies in the 
fact that Robert Read was a follower 
of Wheelwright and a believer of the 
doctrines he and Anne Hutchinson 
preached. Read was not one of those 
named in the list of those disarmed. 
]lis station in life evidently was not 
one that brought him into prominence 
in the events of those days. But he 
was one of those "Voluntary Exiles" 
who followed Wheelwright to Exeter. 
It is quite certain that lie was of the 
party that went to Exeter with Wheel- 
wright, as his name appears in the 
earliest records there. He had not 
joined the Church in Boston, but all 
sympathizers and believers in Wheel- 
wright were condemned and ostra- 
cized and doubtless the social life 
there was anything but pleasant to 
Read, and he preferred even the wil- 
derness. 

EXETER 

A Church was organized in Exeter 
the same year, December 1638, of per- 
sons dismissed from the Church in 
Boston, to which some female mem- 
bers were added the following year. 
It was located on what was after- 
ward called "Meeting House Hill." 

The name Exeter was given to the 
town and on the fourth day of the fifth 
month (4th of July) 1639 the exiles 
formed a Combination for Govern- 
ment, a Democratic Republic, without 
authority from outside, subject only 
to God and the King of England. It 
is a curious coincidence that the 4th 
of July 1776. just 137 years later, the 
Colonies declared their independence 
of the King of England as well ! 
The Combination 

"Where it hath pleased the Lord 
to move the heart of our Dread Sov- 
eraigne Charles by the grace of G°d. 
King of England, Scotland, France 
and Ireland, to grant license and lib- 
erty to sundry of his subjects to plant 
themselves in the westerne partes of 



America : Wee, his loyall subjects, 
brethren of the Church of Exeter, 
situate and lying upon the river of 
Piscataquacke, and out owne neces- 
sity that we should not live without 
wholesome lawes and civil govern- 
ment amongst us, of wch we are 
altogether destitute, doe in the name 
of Christ in the sight of God 
combine ourselves together to erect 
and set up amongst us such Govern- 
ment as shal be, to our best discern- 
ing, agreable to the will of God, pro- 
fessing to our Soveraigne Lord King 
Charles, according to the liberty of 
our English Colony of the Massachu- 
setts & binding ourselves solmnely 
by the grace and helpe of Christ and 
in his name and feare to submit our- 
selves to such Godly and Christian 
laws as are established in the Realme 
of England to our best knowledge and 
to all other such lawes wch shall 
upon good grounds be made and in- 
acted amongst us according to God, 
yt we may live quietly and peaceably 
together in all Godliness and harmony. 
Mon. 5 d. 4th 1639. 

John Wheelwright William Wenbourne 

Augustine Storre Thomas x Crawley 

William Wentworth Chr. Helme 

Thomas Wight I larby x Field 

Henry Elkins Robert x Read 

George x Walton Edward Rishworth 

Samuel Walker Francis x Matthews 

Thomas Pit tit Wiliam x Coole 

Ralff Hall James x Walles 

Robert x Seward Thomas Levitt 

Richard Bulgar I'.dmond Littlefield 

Christopher Lawson John x Crame 

George x Barlow Godfreye x Dearborn 

Richard Morris Philemon Porrnott 

Nicholas Needham Thomas Wardell 

Thomas Wilson William x Wardell 

George x Rugbone Robert x Smith 
Henry Roby 

"Of those who signed this 'Combi- 
nation' it is known John Cram, God- 
frey Dearborn, George Rabgone or 
Haburne, Thomas Wight and William 
Wentworth, came from Mr. Wheel- 
wright's old parish in England, Bilsby, 
as also did Balthazer Willix, an early 
inhabitant of Exeter. Those in the 
above list who are indicated thus 
x made their mark. (History of New 
Hampshire; Stackpole.) 



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Thus we may believe that the Ro- 
bert Read above was the same as the 
one noted in the Alford Parish Regis- 
ter. Bell, in his History of Exeter 
says "of these (from Lincolnshire) 
we can reckon about ten heads of fa- 
milies, and of those who came from 
the neighborhood of Boston about the 
same number. . . . The opening year 
of Exeter's settlement must have 
tested to the utmost the courage and 
endurance of the colonists. Every- 
thing needed to render the place ha- 
bitable had to be created ; for the lack 
of transport in the wilderness pre- 
cluded the conveyance of anything 
beyond the absolute essentials of ex- 
istence. The trees of the primeval 
forest had to be felled, and from their 
trunks rude dwellings constructed, to 
shelter the tender ones. The absence 
of household furniture compelled the 
fashioning of substitutes from wood 
or bark. Planting land must be 
cleared and seed sown to provide 
against the danger of starvation. . . ; 
so every hour of the first season must 
have been devoted to providing the 
means for rendering life secure and 
tolerable." 

LAND GRANTS 

While the arrangements for living 
and for government were being made, 
the matter of a division of lands was 
not forgotten. 

The first allotment was made at 
"the 4th day of the first weake in the 
10th month 1639" (Wed. 1st week in 
Dec). 

When a Division of Uplands was 
laid out in 33 lots Robert Read had 
assigned to him Lot 30 comprising 
"Nine acres and 50 poole." It will 
be seen that here again he received 
the usual allowance for a man with 
a wife, but without children. 

DANGER OF FAMINE— 1643 

The next item of information we 
have concerning him and the inhabi- 
tants of the Settlement, shows that 
scarcity of food and the "High Cost 
of Living" was quite as serious in 1643 
as in these present days of 1918, and 



the prompt and energetic means taken 
by the authorities to remedy matters 
might well be studied by those of to- 
day. The Record reads thus : 

"It is ordered by the Court houldne 
att Exeter the 6th day of the third 
Mo. 1643. . . . That Thomas Wardall, 
William Winborne, Samuel Walker 
and Robert Reade shall have liberty 
and athoretey to searche (in) the 
howse or howses of Aney p'son or 
p'sones wi (thin our) jurisdictiones, 
And to take into theire Custodey ( and 
make) sale of Aney such Corne as 
they shall find in ther (houses) which 
is more then the ptie or pties shall 
have ne(ed) for theire one Families 
till harvest next provided th(at) the 
pties Above named make good pay 
for the sd. Co(rne) and as good A 
pryee as it is generally sould for in 
(the) Rivore and their pties to dis- 
pose of such Corne so (taken) by 
them unto such poore people as stands 
most in n(eed) of it for the best pay 
they can Make and att the f(irst) 
price wch the Above named bye it 
att." (Bell's History of Exeter, p. 
444.) 

MADE FREEMEN— 1644 
That Robert Read and others were 
not neglectful of their duties of citi- 
zenship is shown in the following en- 
try from the archives in the Secretary 
of State's Office at Concord, New 
Hampshire, which has kindly been 
furnished our Society by Miss Etha 
L. Sargent, Clerk. 

"Anthony Staniell, Samuell Walk- 
er, Robert Reade, Robert Smyth, — 
taken the oath of ffreemen at Court 
17th day of the 2d Mo. (44). (17th 
Apr. 1644) (Deed Vol. 1, p. 18.) 
These men were all inhabitants of 
Exeter at this date and signers of the 
'Combination' in 1639." 

"Att A. Towne Meeting the last day 
of the first Moneth (March) 1645 
. . . The names of thouse wch have 
done their share of Mr. Nutter's 
fence this 6th of the 3 mo. (45) . . . 
(May 6, 1645) (26 names in all, in- 
cluding that of Robert Read)." 



THE KEADE RECORD 



At a Court held at Ipswich 4.9.1645 
(4th Nov. 1645) Suit was brought by, 
Robert Read (of Exeter) v. Mr. 
Stephen Bachelour (of Hampton) for 
debt. (Essex Co. Quarterly Courts 
Vol. 1, p. 87). It is evident Robert 
Read returned to Boston some time 
between Nov. 4th 1645 and Sept. 29th 
1646. 

About this time Rev. John Wheel- 
wright, having made peace with the 
Massachusetts Government (See 
Mass. Colony Records) his followers 
were at liberty to return to Boston, 
should they so desire, and evidently 
Robert Read availed himself of the 
opportunity. He had a wife Hannah 
and two daughters, as shown in Suf- 
folk Deeds (Vol. V, pp. 453-455 in 
print) date of 1662. By name Han- 
nah, born about 1642, Mary, born 
about 1644, both probably in Exeter, 
although neither are mentioned in the 
Town Records. 

After his return to Boston, the Vi- 
tal Statistics of his family are shown 
in the following extracts from the 
Boston Records 

(Com. Reports, Vol. 9, 1630-1699) 

1646 — Rebecca of Robert and Han- 
nah Read born 29th 7th month 
(Sept) (Town Rec. p. 24). 

1646 — Rebecca of Robert Reade 
Member of the Ch. of Exeter, 
aged about 29 days. Bapt 1 
d. 9 mo (Nov) ISt. Ch. 

1648 — Deborah of Robert Read Mem- 
ber of the Ch. of Exeter aged 
about 3 days — 28 day 11 mo. 
(Jan) Bapt. 1st Ch. (p. 29). 

1650— Sarah of (Robert) Read— 1 
day. 7. mo. (September) Bapt. 
First Church (p. 44). 

1653 — Samuel of Robert Reade of Ex- 
eter — 3 day. 2 mo. (April) 
Bapt. First Ch. 

1654 — Samuel of Robert & Hannah 
Read died 31st 1st Month 
(March) Town Rec. (p. 47). 

1654 — Samuel of Robert and Hannah 
Read born 28th Feb. (Town 
Rec. p. 46). 



1655 — Hannah, wife of Robert Read 
died 24th — 4. mo. (June) 
(Town Rec. p. 51 ). 

All of Robert's children were by his 
fourth wife Hannah (maiden name 
unknown). It will be noted that in 
their baptismal record in the First 
Church, her name is omitted, indicat- 
ing that she was not a Church mem- 
ber, while in the Town Record the 
names of both Robert and Hannah 
are given. Of the children, Hannah 
was undoubtedly a namesake of the 
mother ; Mary the second daughter, 
of Wheelwright's wife Mary; Rebec- 
ca perhaps a remembrance by Robert 
of his second wife Rebecca Goose, de- 
ceased in Old England in 1633 ; De- 
borah and Sarah perhaps for mother 
Hannah's relatives and the two infant 
Samuels for that Samuel Hutchinson 
at Exeter, brother to Wheelwright's 
wife Mary. 

"The (17) (11) Mo. 1650 (17th 
Jan. 1650/51). 

In Vol. ii SufT. Court Files (Bos- 
ton) is found a tax list of the year 
in which "10 acres of upland of 
Reads" is taxed for L.l. and "3 qrts 
of an aker of Meadow of Reads" at 
15 shillings. This was probably the 
same grant of land Robert Read had 
when first in Exeter to which he had 
added the three quarters of an acre 
of meadow, indicating he had become 
the happy owner of a cow. From 
the wording in the tax list it would 
seem that he had previously sold the 
lands to others. At this date (1650) 
he was an inhabitant of Boston and 
of his activities there we have evidence 
in 

THE DEPOSITIONS IN 1651 
made by John Compton ( of Rox- 
bury) and Robert Read in regard to 
the early grant of water rights in 
Exeter (Hist, of Exeter p. 318). It 
is much to be regretted that these 
depositions are not now to be found, 
as from them we should be able to 
gain information in regard to Robert's 
age, etc. Here follow his 



THE READE RECORD 



ENGAGEMENTS WITH THE 
TOWN OF BOSTON 
1651— "10th of first Mo. 1651. At 
a generall towne meeting . . . 
were chosen . . . for sealers 
of Leather Wm. Courser and 
Robert Read." (T. Rec. p. 
103.) 
1652— "8th of the 1st moneth 1651. 
For Sealers of Leather Wm. 
Courser and Robert Read." 
(T. Rec. p. 108.) 
1652-54— "14th of 1. mo. 52-53." "At 
a general Towne Meeting cho- 
sen for Seallers of Leather 
William Courser and Robert 
Reade." (T. Rec. p. 113.) 
1653— "The 30th. 11. 53" "Simon Ro- 
gers and Robert Read hath in- 
gaged to serve the towne as 
Bellmen to goe up and downe 
throughout the towne by the 
space of five howers in the 
night begininge at eleaven, and 
soe to contynue till foure, and 
to have twenty shillings by the 
week for their labour." 
(About $5 per week.) (T. 
Rec. p. 118.) 

1653-4— "The 12th : 1 :53-54" "Chosen 
for Leather Sealers : William 
Courser and Robert Read." 
(T. Rec. 1. 118.) 
1654-5— "The 12th: 1. Mo. 54.55" 
"Att a meeting this day . . . 
was chosen . . . for searchers 
and sealers of Leather, William 
Courser and Robert Reed." 
(T. Rec. p. 123.) 
As noted previously, Hannah, 
fourth wife of Robert Read and mo- 
ther of his children, died June 24th 
1655 and this is the last mention of 
either of them found in the Boston 
Church or Town Records. But true 
to his habit of marital ties, he soon 
had taken a new partner, one Susan- 
na, whose maiden name is unknown, 
as his fifth wife. She proved to be 
his last as she survived him, to marry 
again herself as will be seen later. 
It is much to be regretted that the 
marriage records of Hannah and Su- 



sanna have not been found, though 
both probably were of Boston. But 
Robert again was contemplating a 
change of residence. He was living 
as late as May 20th 1656 in a house 
near the Town Dock, which he had 
purchased of John Button by verbal 
agreement in 1647, as shown by a 
Suffolk Co. Deed following. But he 
had removed in 1657 to 

HAMPTON (N. H.) 
as evidenced by the following entry 
in its Town Record : "Robert Read 
of Boston is admitted an inhabitant 
into the towne to follow his trade of 
Shoo-making." The Rev. John 
Wheelwright since 1647 had been 
Pastor of the Church at Hampton and 
it is not improbable that this was in 
part the cause of Read's going there. 
However that may be, he was not 
long to enjoy his change of residence. 

"THE WRECK OF RIVER- 
MOUTH" 

His end came in a tragic manner as 
the following entry in the Hampton 
Town Record testifies : 

"20.8.1657 (20th October). The 
sad Hand of God upon eight persons 
going in a vessell by Sea from Hamp- 
ton to Boston who were all swallowed 
up in the osian sone after they went 
out of the Harbour; the persons wear 
by name as followeth. Robert Read, 
Surgent Willim Swaine, Manewell 
Hillyard, John Phillbrick and Ann 
Phillbrick his wife, and Sarah Phill- 
brick their daughter, Alise the wife 
of Moses Corks (Cox) and their son 
(John) who were all Drowned this 
20th of the 8th Mo. 1657." (Hist. 
Rockingham and Stafford Counties, 
p. 319.) 

Whittier's poem, "The Wreck of 
Rivennouth," was founded on this in- 
cident. 

ROBERT READ'S HOME IN 
BOSTON, 1647-1656 

"... That whereas John Button 
of Boston Senir about the third or 
fouth month in the year of our one 
thousand six hundred fourty seaven 



10 



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did by vr.ball agreemt . . . sell unto 
Thomas Matson, William Ludkin then 
living, and Robert Reed, all of the 
said towne of Boston, One house in 
Boston aforesaid in which the said 
Robert Read doth now inhabit and 
Dwell (20 May 1656) as also the shop 
and Chamber over the said shop, and 
ground upon which the said shop 
standeth, as also the back yard being 
now devided in the midle, the said 
Robert Read possessing the said 
house with ye one halfe of the said 
yard — and the said Thomas Matson 
and Elizabeth Ludkin administratrix 
(in behalf e of her selfe and her chil- 
dren) of the goods and estate of Wil- 
liam Ludkin. her late husband de- 
ceased, possessing the said Shop and 
Chamber overhead with the other 
halfe of the said yard — All of wch 
sd. house and shop and ground upon 
which they stand, fronts next the 
Street called ( ) on the part 

of ye East and oposite the Dock (and) 
is on the Said street twenty foure 
foot or there abouts ; the bredth of 
the back part is twenty one foot and 
a halfe or there abouts. ... In Wit- 
ness Whereof the said John Button 
. . . put his hand and seale . . . the 
eight and twentieth day of May . . . 
one thousand six hundred fifty six. 
John V. Button 
his marke 

"1 Y\ CI 7\ SPJ-llf* 

(Suffolk Deeds Lib. VII, p. III.) 

COMMENT 
By this deed it will be seen that 
the land conveyed was 35 feet in 
depth by 24 feet wide fronting East 
on the Street (of which name is not 
given) and "opposite the Dock." But 
in the will of Thomas Matson Senr, 
a gunsmith ( 1677 Surf. Co. Prob. ) it 
is mentioned as "situate at the head 
of the Great Dock," "and now in the 
occupation" of his son John Matson, 
also a gunsmith. Evidently after the 
purchase of the property in 1647 "by 
verball agreement" a division had been 
made by which Robert Read took 
over the house and half the lot and 



Thomas Matson Senr. and William 
Ludkin, a locksmith, acquired the 
shop and the other half of the lot: 
Elizabeth Ludkin widow of William 
at the date of this deed, and John 
Matson being in possession and using 
the shop in their trade. It is quite 
likely that in the same way Robert 
Read used the street room of his 
house as a shop iti which to ply his 
trade of "Shoo-Making." The dimen- 
sions of these premises are interest- 
ing as showing the custom of combin- 
ing shop and house and the scale in 
which the ordinary inhabitant of Bos- 
ton was living in early days. 

SALE OF THE HOMESTEAD IN 
BOSTON 1662 
"To all Christian People to whome 
this prsent wrighting shall come John 
Souter of Boston in the Massachusetts 
Colony of New England brazier and 
Hannah his wife the daughter of Ro- 
bert Reade, late of Hampton deceased, 
Alary Reade of said Boston, spinster, 
another of the daughters of the said 
Robt. Reade and hee the said John 
Souter as Guardian for Sarah Read 
the third daughter of the said Robt. 
Read for and in consideration of 
forty two pounds in hand paid, by 
John Matson of Said Boston gun- 
smith . . . (convey ) unto the said 
John Matson . . . All that theire house 
and land ... in Boston . . . wch was 
the house and land of the said Robert 
Read deceased at the time of his death 
upon part of wch land the said house 
stands, the said ground conteyning 
twelve foote in bredth at the front be- 
ing Soouth East, & Eleaven foote & 
a halfe backward in ye reare being 
Northwest, the length of the sajd 
ground being about Thirty ffive foote 
& a halfe. The said house & ground 
being bounded with the house of John 
Button, North & North West, wth 
the shop of Thomas Matson South- 
erly, & with the Street Easterly. To 
Have & to hold ... In Witness 
whereof . . . One Thousand six hun- 
dred sixty & two stile of England. . . 



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his marke 
John Souter & a seale apending. 

hir marke 
Hannah x Souter & a seale apending. 

hir marke 
Mary R. Read & a seal apending. 
John Souter as gardion for Sara Read 

with a seale apending. 
(Suffolk Deeds, Lib. V, pp. 453-5.) 
. . . Wee John Preson of Boston & 
Susannah my wife the relict of the 
wthin specified Robert Read de- 
ceased for & in of the vallue of the 
third part of the within mentioned 
house & ground . . . sould unto John 
Matson, (convey) all our right, title 
and interest (to him) 7th January: 

1662 - his marke 

John P. Presson. 

hir marke 
Susanna x Presson. 



John Button and Thomas Matson 
were two of Wheelwright's followers 
who were disarmed by the Massachu- 
setts authorities in 1637 (See Colony 
Records Vol. I). 
Robert Read — Final Settlement 
of Estate 

New Hampshire State Papers, Vol. 
XXXI, p. 73. Robert Read— 1664— 
Hampton. "Account of the adtn. 
Robert Smith, agt. est. of Robert 
Read of Hampton showing a balance 
of L.7.2.6. due him from the est. This 
the Court ordered to be paid out of 
the rent of a house in Boston belong- 
ing to the estate." The inventory 
and other papers in the case seem not 
existent. 

SUSANNAH READ, WIDOW OF 
ROBERT OF HAMPTON 
(Town Rec. Boston, p. 82) 1661. 
John Preston and Susanna Read wi- 
dow were married 28th May by Mr. 
Thomas Danforth of Cambridge. He 
was living in 1668 (Savage) but nei- 
ther Boston nor Cambridge records 
furnish further information unless 
Savage is mistaken and the following 
entry in Boston T. Rec. p. 9 refers 
to him: "1663 — John Preston died 



June 6th." This is the last mention 
of the Preston name in the Boston 
records B. M. & D. 1630-1699. There 
being no record of a widow Susanna 
Preston it would seem that this was 
another John, and that Susanna and 
her husband John removed from Bos- 
ton to some other locality. 

HANNAH READ, 

DAUGHTER, ROBERT OF 

HAMPTON 

1660— John Souther & Hannah Read 

were married 11 January 

(Boston T. Rec). 

1666— He was living in Hampton, N. 

H. 
167-1 — Allowed to keep a house of 

Entertainment. 
1674 — "Keeper" of the Norfolk Co. 

prison. 
1675— Wife Hannah died Jan. 15th. 
Hannah b. Aug. 31, 1663 Boston. 
John b. Apr. 13, 1666. 
Mary b. Aug. 25, 1668. 
Rebecca b. Dec. 5, 1670 d. Sept. 25, 
1675. 
Sarah b. Feb. 27, 1673. 
He married (2) Mary (Read? sis- 
ter of Hannah). 

Children 
James b. March 4, 1678. 
Isaac b. March 9, 1680. 
Sarah b. Aug. 8, 1682. 
Robert b. about— 1686, d. Oct. 30, 
1703. 
Rebecca b. Sept. 11, 1680. 

(Dows. Hist. Hampton.) 



IN CONCLUSION 
It will be seen that Robert Read left 
no male issue to carry his name down 
to posterity and doubtless the loss of 
his two infant sons Samuel by name 
was a grief to him for that reason. 
There are those who think it a waste 
of time to make a genealogical record 
of such a man. But the Secretary is 
frank to say that the history and tra- 
gic end of Robert Read always inter- 
ested him, and as no one else appears 
likely to do so, he has taken it on 
himself to make out the record. 



12 



THE READE RECORD 



HEADQUARTERS FIRST DIVISION, 5th CORPS 
ARMY OF SANTIAGO DE CUBA 
17th July, 1898 



SUBJECT : COMMENDATION OF 

MAJOR PHILIP READE 

Inspector-General U. S. Volunteers 



During the engagement,assault of Fort 
San Juan, 1st inst., he showed extraor- 
dinary heroism in action, I sent him out 
to the balloon to inspect the lines of the 
enemy. He was mounted, and was under 
a heavy fire. Returning, he dismounted 
only to report the situation to Lt.-Col. 
George McDerby, Eng. Corps Staff of 
Corps Commander, since recommended 
by the Corps Commander for a Medal 
of Honor. Maj. Reade talked in cool, 
calm, soldierly terms I sent him to the 
floating balloon for personal reconnois- 
sance, despite the dangerous fire con- 
centrated on the balloon. Leaving his 
horse, he stopped for some time exposed 
to artillery, machine gun and small-arms 
fire. 

Fearless of personal danger, he talked 
to Lt. James F. Maxfield, Signal Corps, 
who was in direct charge of the balloon 
until it was shot down. As a result of 
Major Reade's report the Division 
Commander determined the strength, 
distance, and location of the enemy's 
forces. I so reported to the 1st. Lt. 
John D. Miley, A.D.C. to Maj. Gen. W. 
R. Shaftei. 

Maj. Reade was then the only un- 
horsed officer of the 1st Division Staff. 
He was a valuable inspiring officer all 
the afternoon ; fearless of personal dan- 
ger and disregard of it. Major Reade 
merits a Medal of Honor for valor 
and steadiness. 

All this on the 1st instant. In ad- 
dition, he rallied and led a Battalion, 
21st Regt. N.Y. Vols., headed by Maj. 
Frank Keck, same Regt., into action 
for the assault and capture of Fort San 
Juan. 



On the 2d of July, early in the day, 
he was wounded by a shot which hit 
him above the right ear, and was by 
Capt. John Newton reported as mortally 
hurt. Notwithstanding, after some 
three hours of unconsciousness, he was 
able to resume his duties. Maj. Reade 
then erased his name from the list of 
casualties and rendered efficient service 
until the end of the campaign ; for 
which I recommend him for recognition. 

On the 3d of July he at the peril of 
his life led a squad of the 24th Infantry 
to recover a carreta on which was a 
barrel left by the enemy in its retreat 
(then in full view of the enemy and 
constantly under hostile fire) and suc- 
ceeded in bringing the water barrel 
back to our lines, where it saved jour- 
neying to the San Juan river — thus 
saving many trips to same with only 
canteens, our then only method of 
getting water under a tropical sun. 

Throughout the campaign Maj. Reade 
has, to the detriment of his health I 
fear, rendered assiduous service. He 
is backed by over thirty years of previ- 
ous service, beginning in the Civil War 
period and in the Indian campaigns. 
Of this I have personal knowledge. 

He has proved himself to be a most 
active, zealous, conscientious inspector, 
painstaking, and one devoted to the in- 
terests of the service. Besides this, he 
is a gallant officer and a gentleman, and 
he served me fearlessly under fire in the 
battle before Santiago de Cuba. 

J. FORD KENT, 
Maj.-Gen. U.S.V. 
Comd'g 1st Division, 
5th Corps. 



Ube 1Rea6e IRecov 




Number XII. 



BOSTON, MASS., U.S.A. 



1919 



THE READE SOCIETY 

FOR GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH 
ORGANIZED 1904 INCORPORATED 1914 



Whosoever printeth a book 
raiseth a monument 




More enduring than marble 
or brass 



The Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Reade Society was 
held at the Old State House, October 31, 19 19. 

Owing to the decease of the President, Gen. Philip Reade, 
and the unavoidable absence of the Vice-President and Secretary i 
the meeting was called to order by Mr. Charles F. Read, Treas- 
urer, acting as Chairman. The meeting was then adjourned 
subject to his call. 

The Adjourned Meeting of the Reade Society 

was held at the Old State House, December 26, 1919, pursuant 
to the call of Chairman Charles F. Read. 

The Treasurer presented his report concerning the finances 
of the Society which showed all debts paid and a balance in the 
Treasury ; The report was accepted and approved. 

Then a motion was made by the Secretary that Mr. Aleyn 
Lyell Reade, Trevellyan House, Blundersands, Liverpool, Eng- 
land, the author of that fine work, " The Reades of Blackwood 
Hill, in the Parish of Horton, Staffordshire," be elected an 
Honorary Life Member. Voted in the affirmative, 

A motion was then made and passed that Lieut.-Com. Albert 
Cushing Read, of Washington, D.C., be elected an Honorary Life 
Member in recognition of his memorable flight across the Atlan- 
tic Ocean in the NC-4. 

A resolution of regret concerning the lamented decease of 
our late President, Gen. Philip Reade, was then passed and 
ordered to be spread upon the records. 

The election of officers was then held, for which see page 2. 
The meeting was then dissolved. 

ALANSON H. REED, 
Boston 9, Mass., December 26, 1919. Secretary. 



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Single Cosies, One Dollar 
Value lies in the Content 



Published by 

THE READE SOCIETY 

For Genealogical Research 




HENRY B. REED, President 

Auburndale, Mass. 

CHARLES A. READ, Vice-President 

Manchester, Mass. 
CHARLES F. READ, Treasurer 

Boston, Mass. 
ALANSON H. REED, Secretary 

Boston, Mass. 
GEORGE S. STEWART, Genealogist 

Watertown, Mass. 



ANNUAL MEETINGS 
Sixteen annual meetings of the Reade 
Society have been held in Massachusetts, 
as foil 

Taunton, July 14, 1904. 

Boston. October 12, 1905. 

South Weymouth, September 27, 1906. 

West Bridgewater, October 17, 1917. 

Boston, October 28, 1908. 

Boston, October 28, 1909. 

Lexington, October 28, 1910. 

South Weymouth, October 27, 1911. 

Burlington, October 16, 1912. 

Boston, October 30, 1913. 

Boston. October 22, 1914. 

Boston, October 28, 1915. 

Boston, October 31. 1916. 

Boston, October 31, 1917. 

Boston, October 28, 1918. 

Boston, October 31, 1919. 

YOU ARE INVITED TO JOIN 

Membership fees, one dollar per year, or 
$10 for a Life Membership, exempt from 
future dues should be sent to Charles F. 
Read. Treasurer, Old State House, Boston, 
M ass. 

23T" Let it ever be remembered that the 
Reade Record is mailed only to members 
whose dues have been paid. The Society 
is limited in its printing by its income. 

Every dollar is needed to pay the in- 
creased cost of publication. 



Tin Ski i:i i \i;y Says : 

That by the decease of our late 

President Gen. Philip Reade the Society 
suffered the loss of a member devoted to 
its interests. A soldier, a scholar and a 
gentleman. 

That he urgently asks the mem- 
bers of Hi.- Reade Society in send him 
lists of Reade names (however spelled), 
with addresses, taken from the telephone, 
town in- 'iiy di rectories, S. A. R. and 
1 1, A. It. books, in' wherever the names 
can be found, s<> thai folders can be sent 
asking them in join il»- Society, and 
thus increase iis membership. 

That our members will note they are 

receiving two numbers "f the Record this 
year. No. XL.1918, and No. XII 1919. Both 
is-ues for various reasons are behind time 
and it was desirable to bring things up to 
date, and start with a clean slate in 1920. 

That our members should carefully 

preserve and bind their copies of the 
Reade Record tor future reference as 
much of tin- information contained in them 
is not to be I final elsewhere. 

That no genealogist today can be 

sure of establishing the Family's correct 
ancestral lines without consulting the 
Reade Rei ord 

That in view of the extensive mem- 
bership of the Read-Reed-Reid Family 
throughout this wide country, if all would 
support the Societj 1>\ joining, its treas- 
ury would be filled to overflowing. 

That in consequence much rr-ater 

investigations could be made of original 
records in this country and in Old England. 

That it would then be possible to 

print an issue of the Reade Record quar- 
terly instead of annually as now. 

—That it should be remembered that 
all interested in the Family's ancestral 
lines are eligible for membership, regard- 
less of name. 

That the real value of the Reade So- 
ciety consists mainly in what new genea- 
logical information it puts into print, and 
thus makes available for the world's use. 

That the stock of Nos. II and III of 

the Record having been exhausted it would 
be well ti> have them reprinted as soon 
as the finances of the Society allow, so that 
our members can complete their files 
when desired. 

That hitherto, uo satisfactory geneal- 
ogical record of the Sudburt* Read Family 
has been printed. It is hoped that the brief 
outline of the first generations in this issue 
of the Record will prove of interest and 
value. It clears up many mistakes and 
much confusion in older statements— notably 
in the "History of the R^ed Family,' pub- 
lished in 1861. 



THE READE RECORD 



SUDBURY READ FAMILY 

SUDBURY, MIDDLESEX CO., MASSACHUSETTS, U. S. A. 



By Alanson H. Reed 



THOMAS READ- 
born abt. 1595 
died 1665 



- m, abt. 1618 — RACHEL (maiden name unknown.) 
born abt. 1598 
died .... Colchester. 



Resided in All Saints Parish, Col- 
chester, Essex Co., England. De- 
scribed as Carpenter in his will for 
which see Reade Record No. X. 
Children 

I. Mary born... 1620, probably in 
Colchester. Came to America about 
1639. M. Daniel Bacon, a tailor, 
son of Michael of Dedham, but later 
of Newton, where both he and Alary 
died in 1691. Mentioned in Fath- 
er's will as being in New England. 

II. Thomas bapt. 19 Oct. 1627. St. 
Nicholas Parish Colchester. Men- 
tioned in Father's will as being in 
New England. (See below.) 

III. Rachel born abt. 1630, Colches- 
ter, Eng. M. Joseph Hocker. No 
issue of record. 

IV. Isaac born... 1632, Colchester. 
Rector at Wrabness, Essex Co., 1660 
to 1696 when he died. Had wife 
Frances, son Liddell b. 1664, dau. 
Johanna b. 1665. and dau. Marian 
or Mary who married 1677 Robert 
Cole, Rector of Great Oakley, an 
adjoining Parish. 

1. 
1— Thomas 1 bapt. Oct. 19, 1627, St. 
Nicholas Parish, Colchester, Eng- 
land. In Sudbury, Massachusetts. 
May 28, 1655 where he died Sept. 
13/1701. ( See will in Reade Rec- 
ord No. X, in which he is described 
as a carpenter, and Middx. Registry 
of Probates, Cambridge.) He 
bought from his cousin Edmund 
Browne, Pastor of the Church in 
Sudbury a tract of land on the West 
Side of the River just South of 
West (now Lanham) Brook on the 
West Side of the road leading from 



the County or State road South into 
Framingham. On this tract of land 
the Settlement or "Hamlet of Lan- 
ham," a namesake of the ancient 
town of Lavenham in England, was 
established prior to May 20. 1657. 
Probably soon after Read's purchase 
in 1655. 

M. (1) abt. 1648 Katharine 

who d. Sept. 26, 1677. 
M. (2) Mar. 7, 1678 Mary Wood 
widow of Michael of Concord. 

She died 

M. (3) Dec. 29, 1689, widow Ara- 
bella Thong (i.e. Tong-Tongue) 
born... 1646 who survived him 
and died April 29, 1717. 
Only Son (by wife Katharine) 

2 — Thomas 2 b. abt. 1649. Known as 
Thomas Junior. A farmer in Sud- 
bury near Framingham line and 
Lanham Road. M. May 30, 1677 
Mary dau. of John Goodrich of 
Wethersfield, Conn. She b. 1650 
and d. Sudbury 1724. He removed 
to Leicester and then to Oxford 

Mass., where he died Was 

alive in 1733. 

Children. All born in Sudbry. 

3— Thomas 3 b. 22 Mar. 1678. (See 
below. ) 

4— Mary 3 b. 5, Jan. 1679. M. Oct. 
13, 1701. Joseph Seaver, Framing- 
ham. 

5— Rachel 3 b. June 19. 1682. M.. . . 
1704. Isaac Heath of Framingham. 

6— Nathaniel 3 b. Aug. 16. 1684. 
Prob. d. young. 

7— Elizabeth 3 b. Nov. 16. 1687. M. 
Dec. 28, 1709, Nathaniel Willson of 
Framingham. 

8—Hannah 3 b....l689, d...!691. 



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9_j OSEP h 3 b. abt. 1695. M. Nov. 26, 
1723, Sarah Rice dau. Ebenezer of 
Sudbury. 

3. 
Thomas 3 b. Sudbury March 1678. 
M. (1) Dec. 3, 1701 Mary (Bige- 
low) Bruce, wid. of David of 
Marlboro and dau. of John Bige 
low of Watertown. She b. Sept. 
12, 1677 and d. 21 Feb., 1707. 
He M. (2) Abigail Bacon dau. 
John of Watertown. Thomas in- 
herited the Estate of his gr. fath. 
Thomas at Lanham (in Sudbury ) 
and d. there May 1, 1755. 
Children (by Mary). 
10— Nathaniel 4 b. Oct. 6. 1702. M. 

Pheby Lamb. 
11— Isaac 4 b. Feb. 2.^ 1704. M. Ex- 
perience Willis. 
12— Thomas 4 b. abt. 1705. M. Sarah 



13_Katharine 4 b. Jan... .1707. d. 

. .Westboro. M. (1) Joseph Jos- 

lin of Marlboro, Dec. 26, 1725. M. 

(2) Israel Allen of Sherewsbury, 

May 3, 1764. 

Children (bv Abigail ). 
14 — Mary 4 b. May 1, L709. d. before 
1768 prob. in Holliston. M. March 
10. 1730, Samuel Burbank of Sud- 
bury. 
15— Abigail 4 b. Feb. 12. 1711. M. 
Mar. 11. 1742 Samuel Winch of 
Framingham. 
16— Daniel 4 b. May 19, 1714. M. 

\pr 13, 1737 Rebecca Mead of 

17— Betty 4 b. June 16, 1716. M. (1) 
abt, 1736 John Bent of Framing- 
ham; (2) Joshua Harrington of 
Watertown. 
18— Lydia 4 b. Aug. 20, 1718. M. 1737 

Edward Grout of Sudbury. 
19— Joseph 4 b. Dec. 4, 1722. M. Jan. 
16, 1749 Sarah Goodenow of Sud- 
bury. 9. 

Joseph 3 b. abt. 1695. M. Nov. 26, 
1723 Sarah Rice (dau. of Eben- 
ezer of Sudbury) b. Feb. 3, 1700. 
He lived on the farm with his 
Father Thomas Junr and removed 
with him to Leicester in 1727 and 
then to Oxford where he died in 



1731. His widow Sarah M. (2) 
Ebenezer Humphrey who d. 1761 
and she d. Mar. 12, 1784. 
Children (by Joseph). 
20— John 4 bapt. Sudbury Aug. 30, 

1724, d. young. 
21— Bethia 4 b. Aug. 1, 1725, Sud- 
bury. M. Feb. 19, 1747 Moses 
Town of Oxford. 
22— Thomas 4 b. Aug. 9, 1727, Leices- 
ter. M. Aug. 2, 1749 Experience 
Shumway (dau. Jeremiah) and died 
Dec... 1750. She M. (2) John 
Wyman. 
23— John 4 b. July 27, 1729, Leicester. 
M. Nov. 23,' 1751 Hannah Goddard 
dau. of Giles of Roxbury. 
Note.— John's mother, Sarah, had sister, Ab- 
igail, wife of Daniel Bugbee.in Roxbury, Soon 
after the decease of John's father, his aunt, 
Abigail, brought her little nephew to Roxbury. 

24 — {Catherine 4 b. June. . . 1731. M. 
Sept. 27. 1750 Joseph Pratt of < >x- 
i',,,-,1. She d. Jan. 11, 1808. 
'10. 
Nathaniel 4 b. Oct. 6, 1702. M. (int.) 
Nov. 2, 1729 Pheby dau. of Jona- 
than and Lydia (Death) Lamb of 
Framingham and Leicester, horn 
Mar. 2, 1708. Nathaniel settled first 
in Krookfield but removed to Wes- 
tern (now Warren). He lived on 
Read Hill, where he kept an inn 
on the main road from Worcester 
to Springfield. He was an exten- 
sive land owner- -known as Cap- 
tain Nathaniel, having engaged in 
the French and Indian Wars. He 
died June 9, 1785 and his wife Phe- 
by Sept. 10, 1788. Both bur. in the 
old Cemetery at Warren. 
Children. 
25— Reuben' b. Nov. 2, 1730, Brook- 
field. M. (int.) Nov. 3, 1754Tami- 
son Meacham of Enfield, Conn., b. 
Feb. 2, 1732 dau. of Ichabod. He 
was a school teacher and lived in 
WCstern (now Warren) on Read 
Hill. Known as Major Reuben, 
4th Worcester Co. Regiment in tin- 
war of the Revolution ( Mass. Sol- 
diers and in Rev. War. Vol. XII I ). 
He was present at the capture of 
General Burgoyne's army (Acts 



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and Resolves of the Province of 
Mass. Bay, Vol. XX) in Col. Hol- 
man's Regiment. He d. May 26, 
1803. His wife Tarama d. Feb. 16, 
1811. Bur. Old Cem., Warren. 

26— Joshua 5 b. Dec. 14, 1732, d. Mar. 
3, 1743. 

27— Pheby 5 b. Jan. 28, 1735. M. Jan. 
13, 1754 (int.) Joshua Harrington 
of Brookfield. 

28— Lydia 5 b. Mar. 13, 1736. M. 
Apr. 2, 1759 Jonathan Danforth of 
Western, a Rev. Soldier. She d. 

Aug. 9, 1769. He d. Feb 1802 

at Williamstown. 

29— Mary 5 b. Jan. 30, 1738. M. Sept. 
20, 1759 Joseph Cutler of Western. 
She d. Mar. 26, 1794 He d. Feb. 
7, 1816. 

30— Nathan 5 b. Mar. 8, 1741, d. Oct. 
1, 1758. Inscription on headstone 
in Old Cemetery at Warren, "In 
Memory of Mr. Nathan Read who 
died in the Service of his Country 
Oct. 1, 1758, aged 17 years." In 
the French and Indian War. 

31— Martha 5 b. Sept. 26, 1743, d.. . . 
1813, Randolph, Vt. M. (int.) Nov. 
20, 1762 Henry Walbridge of Wes- 
tern. 

32— Abigail 5 b. Mar. 17, 1746, d. 
Sept. 26, 1784. M. (int.) Mar. 24, 
1764 Thomas Cutler of Lexington, 
a member of Capt. Parker's Co. in 
the Battle of Lexington. 

33— Ruth 5 b. Jan. 31, 1748, d 

M. Oct. 16, 1769 William Cowee of 
Western, a Rev. Soldier. 

34 — Nathaniel 5 b. March, 1750, d. 
March 22, 1750. 

35— Eunice 5 b. Aug. 4, 1751, d. July 
15, 1808, Milton, Vt. M. May 4, 
1769 Moses Bascom of Western. 
11. 

Isaac 4 b. Feb. 23, 1704. M. Feb. 11, 
1729 Experience Willis, Sudbury. 
He was a farmer and lived in Lan- 
ham Settlement. His will proved 
June 14, 1780. His widow died 
Aug. 26, 1787. 

Children 

36— Isaac 5 Jr. b. Jan. 15, 1730. M. 



( 1 ) fan. 16, 1755 Lvdia Goodenow. 
She d. Jan. 2. 1757'. He (2) Dec. 
12, 1758 Mary Haynes. He d. Apr. 
3, 1759. She M. (2) Mar 19. 1761 
John Goodenow, Sudbury. 

37— Jacob 5 b. Dec. 22, 1732. M. (1) 
Feb. 28, 1757 Paitence Goodenow, 
wid. of Aaron who d. Feb. 6, 1795. 
He M. (2) Dec. 22, 1796 Mrs. Es- 
ther Goodenow. He d. Oct. 4, 1797. 
Succeeded to his Father Isaac's es- 
tate and was an extensive land 
owner in the Lanham district. 
Known as Lieut. Jacob. In the war 
of the Revolution. ( See Mass. Sol- 
diers and Sailors. Vol. XIII.) 

38 — Experience 5 b. Nov 1734. 

M. Aug. 16 (Rut. Rec), Oct. 10 
(Sud. Rec), 1753 Josiah Child of 
Rutland. Settled in Framingham. 
She d He was alive in 1796. 

39— Sarah 5 b. Dec. 28, 1736. M. 
Mar. 14, 1755 Norman Sever of 
Sudbury. Removed to Westminster 
where he died in 1787 and she in 
1808. He was a Captain in the War 
of the Revolution. (See Mass. Sol- 
diers and Sailors, Vol. XIII). 

40— Mary 5 b. Mar. 9, 1741. M. Nov. 
29, 1759 Josiah Puffer, Sudbury. 
Removed to Westminster. He d. 
July 9, 1806. She d. July 19, 1831. 

41— Ruth 5 b. Aug. 31, 1743. M. Nov. 

1, 1764 Daniel Noyes, Sudbury. Re- 
moved to Shrewsbury. She d. Dec. 

2. 1812. He M. (2) Mrs. Abigail 
Rice of Worcester. He was a Lieu- 
tenant in the War of the Revolu- 
tion. 

42— Lois 5 bapt. Feb. 12. 1749, d. abt. 
1813-14. Jonathan Hill of Framing- 
ham. He M. (2) Apr. 16, 1817 
Betsev Wheeler Cole. He d. Oct. 
16, 1826. A Lieut, in War of the 
Revolution. 

43— Asahel 5 b. Mar 1753. A 

member of Capt. John Nixon's Co. 
of Minute Men in Sudbury. Killed 
at the Battle of Lexington Apr. 19, 
and buried the 22d in the Old Ceme- 
tery at Sudbury Center. 
No memorial marks the spot. 



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12. 

Thomas 4 b. abt. 1705. M. Sarah 
(maiden name unknown). Re- 
moved to Rutland. A farmer and 
large land owner. She d. Feb. 16. 
1776. He d. Sept. 20, 1788. 
Children 

4-1 — Iason 5 bapt. May 7, 1732, d. .Mar. 
1, 1813. M. (1) (int.) Oct. 30, 
1756 Zerviah Nurse dau. John, Jr., 

of Framingham. She d M. 

i 2 ) June 28, 1789 Mary Hubbard, 
who d. 20 Oct., 1821. A Lieut, in 
the War of the Revolution. 

45— Thomas 5 b. Sept. 10. 1733, d. 
Aug. 12. 1788. M. Dec. 12, 1754 
Hannah Nurse, Framingham. She 
d. .Mar. 10, 1803. A Captain in the 
War of the Revolution. 

46— Mary 5 b. May.... 1736, d. Sept. 
6. 1811. M. May 21, 1753 Oliver 
Davis of Rutland. Removed to 
Princeton. He d. Jan. 25, 1803. An 
Ensign in the War of the Revolu- 
tion. 

47— Jonathan 5 b. Nov. 28, 1738, d. 
Sept. 15, 1773. M. (int.) Dec. 7, 
1765 Hannah Mayhew of Framing- 
ham. She d. in Rutland ]ulv 21, 
1782. 

48— Micah 3 b. May 13, 1742, d. Dec. 
24, 1824. M. Aug. 31, 1768 Eliza- 
beth Kugg of Framingham Re- 
moved to Westmoreland, N. H., 
where she d. Jan. 13, 1795. He m. 
(2) Feb. 14,' 1796 Mercy Sargent 
of Leicester. 

16. 

Daniel 4 b. May 19. 1714. M. Apr. 
13, 1737 Rebecca Mead dau. of 
John, Sudbury. Removed to Rut- 
land. He d. Dec. 25, 1760. She 

d 

Children 

49 — /ohn 5 b. Aug. 13, 1737, Sudbury. 
M. Elizabeth Davis of Rutland, 

Aug. 25, 1760, who d He 

d. in Spencer, Jan. 27, 1813. 
50— Daniel 5 b. Apr. 24, 1739, Sud- 
bury. Died in Rutland Dec. 27, 
1760. 
51— Rebecca 5 b. Feb. 22, 1742, Sud- 
bury. M. Feb. 18, 1761 Daniel 
Winch, Jr., of Framingham. 



52 — Anna 5 b. Apr. 3, 1747 in Rut- 
land. 

19. 

Joseph 4 b. Dec. 4, 1722, d. Feb. 26, 
1809. M. Jan. 16, 1749 Sarah 
Goodenow dau. of Nathan and Lois 
( Cutler ) Goodenow. She d. in Bos- 
ton. Joseph succeeded to the Estate 
of his Father Thomas which later 
he sold to his brother-in-law John 
Goodenow, June, in 1787. A Lieut, 
in tin- War of the Revolution. 

C IIILDREN 

53— Abigail 5 b. July 8, 1750. M. 
March 18, 1770 Daniel Wait, Sud- 
bury. Removed to Brandon, Ver- 
mont. 

54 — Lydia 5 b. Aug. 1760, d. in Sal- 
em. M. May 2, 1790 John Sy- 
monds of Waltham. 

55— Sarah 5 b. 1768, d 

56— Joseph 8 b. Oct. 5. 1773, d. Dec. 
18, 1845. M. June 22, 1799 Olive 
Mossman. Resided in Sudbury. 
22. 

Thomas 4 b. Aug. 29, 1727 in Leices- 
ter. M. Aug. 1, 1749 Experience 
Shumway. He d. Dec, 1750. She 
m. ( 2) July 23, 1752 John Wyman. 
Child 

57— Joseph" 1). April 19, 1750, d. Dec. 
\9, 1818. M. (1) May 7, 1775 Han- 
nah Learned dau. of Isaac. M. (2) 
May 26, 1803 Lois Sikes. He re- 
moved to Belchertown where all his 
children were born. 
23. 

Ioiin 1 b. July 27. 1729 Leicester, d. 
Ian. 13, 1813 in Roxburv. M. Nov. 
23, 1751 Hannah Goddard (dau. of 
Giles and Hannah) who died Jan. 
13, 1816. lie was known as Major 
John and owned a tract of land in 
Roxburv, through which it is said 
Warren Street now runs. He was 
a Factor for Governor James Bow- 
doin. among other transactions pur- 
chasing Long Island, Little Deer 
Isle, Bradbury and others in Penob- 
scot Bay, Me. 

Children 
58— Hannah 5 b. Mar. 30. 1754, Rox- 
bury. 



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59— Mary 3 bp. April 11, 1756, New- 
North Ch., Boston, d. y. 

60— John 5 bp. Sept. 18, 1758, New 
North Ch., Boston. M. Oct. 15, 
1780 Mercy Goodwin of Plymouth. 

61 — Thomas 3 bp. June 8, 1760, New 
South Ch., d. y. 

62 — Joseph 5 bp. Mar. 14, 1762, New 
South Ch.. 

63— Mary 3 bp. May 29, 1763. New- 
South Ch. 



6-1 — Elizabeth 3 bp. Mar. 31, 1765, 
New South Ch. d. y. 

65— Thomas 5 b. Nov. 27, 1767, bp. 
Nov. 29, 1767, New South Ch. 

M. (1) Ruth Wait dau. 
Daniel. Roxbury. M. (2) Margaret 
Pratt dau. Nathaniel. Roxbury. Re- 
moved to Bowdoinham, Me. 

66 — Elizabeth 3 bp. Nov. 12, 1769, 
New South Ch. 

67— William 3 bp. Dec. 29, 1771, New 
South Ch. 



ALBERT CUSHING READ 

THE COLUMBUS OF THE AIR 



The first to fly across the Atlantic 
Ocean ; and from the New World to 
the Old. How wide would the eyes 
of Christopher Columbus have 
opened, if, when his little vessels 
were staggering across the stormy 
ocean in an uncertain search for In- 
dia's Spicy Shores, and he ran up 
against a strange New World that 
obstructed his path and brought him 
everlasting fame — had he been told, 
as one of the certain things of the 
distant future — that a man would ac- 
tually fly high aloft in the air, even 
above one's sight, in a so-called "fly- 
ing boat," and make the return trip in 
as few hours as he had taken days 
to come? And that this man would 
be christened "The Columbus of the 
Air," and attain a world-wide celebri- 
ty ; and that wonderful man in that 
wonderful, magic, "flying boat," Col- 
umbus would have known, had he 
been able to read the future, would 
be one Read ! "Holy Saints," he 
would have replied in derision, "dost 
thou expect mee for soothe to believe 
in any suche workes of the Blacke 
Arts ? Soe soone would I thinke that 
shippes will be able to plough their 
waye under water from shore to 
shore, with the Devill for a helms- 
man, as to believe aney suche crazy 
yarne as your Flying boate." 



"Yet, even soe, Skipper Columbus, 
shall itt bee done, as you say. Deep 
under the oceans waters, like a whale, 
shall mightie shippes, builded of iron 
and far larger than these vessells in 
which wee now sail, shall plough 
their ways from shore to shore, withe 
a stowe of men and cargoe, and with 
a speede that exceedes our owne." 
"What sayest thou," replies Columbus 
with ire, "that shippes shall bee made 
of iron and sinke not, to the bottom 
of the ocean, even as a stone goeth 
downe" ? 

"Yea even soe saye I, they shall bee 
built of iron and soe large of size 
that they shall accommodate more 
men, women and children than inhab- 
itt a goodly towne in oure Kingdom ; 
and yet more shall I tell thee thou 
unbeliever for I am the seventh sonne 
of seven times seven sonnes and itt is 
given to mee that somewhat of the 
future I may fortell. Againe shall itt 
bee as thou hast saide. Shippes of 
vaster size than thou hast ever con- 
ceived will bee builded of stone in a 
mannner we wot not of and they 
shall carry great cargoes and store 
of goodes to far distant landes that 
are owned of the heathen and safely 
return." "Bye all the Saints thou driv- 
est mee- wilde with thy drivel," re- 
torts Skipper Columbus. But his tor- 



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mentor has not yet finished and in- 
sists, again : "These things that I have 
told thee are as naught in strange- 
nose when I declare unto you in all 
honour and veritie, that in those dayes 
the skippers of those shippes shall 
talke with each other through the 
emptie aic by strange signs and sig- 
nals though they bee very far distant 
aparte, yea hundreds or thousands of 
miles ; and as well talke with those 
people that bee upon the land and in 
the cities ; and I doubt mee not bee 
heard of voyce as well. And other 
strange things will happen as I may 
tell thee — " but this garulous inform- 
er got no farther for Skipper Colum- 
bus — and we say "Skipper," for mind 
you gentle reader he was then on his 
way westward and had not yet bumped 
up against the western World and so 
made himself Admiral of the High 
Seas — very likely grew purple in the 
face, with rage and stamped his feet 
upon the oaken deck and swung his 
list at the face of his rash forecaster 
living, "Thou insolent dogge, dost 
thou dare to make a monkey of thy 
superiors by thy assertion that the 
Kingdome of Satan is at hande? How 
otherwise could it bee that such in- 
credible things shall happen, oh thou 
liar, unless it come of the Devils 
worke? Art thou his prophet ? Were 
it soe, thou deserveth death — nay, 
nay, long have I knowne thee as a 
thoughtful man and of good repute 
and I will not soe believe thee guilty. 
Rather thinke I that thou art mud- 
dled and bewitched in thy heade and 
that care should be taken that thou 
harmest not thyself and others." 

A shrill blast of a whistle calls a 
brace of stalwart seamen to the Skip- 
per's side, as he roars his command : 
"Take holde of this fellowe and place 
him in the brigg below, and feede 
him on breade and water until the 
distemper of his heade be gone, and 
he speaketh humbly and as one of 
good witte, and then bringe mee ac- 
count of him, that I may see what 



further may bee done in the matter." 



Lucky for thee, Oh, Lt.-Com. 
Reade that your daring flight across 
the Atlantic Ocean occurred in these 
days of science, when you receive 
grateful praise and reward, rather 
than in those olden times when im- 
prisonment for sorcery and witch- 
craft in some deep dungeon would 
have been your fate ! 



Now we do not need to tell here, 
how Albert Gushing Read was "born 
March 29th, 1887 in Lynne, N. H. 
and was 32 years of age when his 
great feat was accomplished. That 
his parents were Joseph Brown Read, 
a Baptist Minister, and his wife Mary 
Elizabeth (Barker) Read. That the 
family lived in Lynne, N. H., until 
Albert was about 5 years, old and then 
moved to Hinsdale, N. H., for a short 
time and then into Western Mass. and 
to Shutesburg near Amherst and later 
to Chatham for three years and then 
back to his mother's old home in 
South Hanson, Mass., for the Boston 
Sunday Post, May 25, 1919, has told 
all this and much more. 

But we will add that Albert dish- 
ing Read is reputed a lineal descend- 
ant of William and Avis Read of 
Weymouth, Mass. (about 1650) if 
the account given in the "Reade Gen- 
ealogy, by John L. Reed is correct. 
But there is one weak link in the 
chain that needs investigation before 
that can be affirmed with certainty. 

But, however, that may be, his 
fame is secure and it would not be 
far from the truth to state that the 
Read-Reed family every where are 
proud of this young man, who has 
added another illustrious Read name 
to the many that grace the pages of 
history. A. H. R. 

A CORRECTION 
At bottom of page 17, Reade Reeord No. X 
3.— John, born at Fairfield, Jan. 29, 1679, m. 
Ruth.dau.of Lieut. John Talcott of Hartford. 
Not Talbot as there given. 



THE KEADE RECORD 



JOHN READE OF DEDHAM 
(Reade List No. 22) 

The first mention of this man is found 
in the town records of Dedham when, 
at a meeting of the town officers the 
"6 of 10.59 (6th of December, 1659), 
being mett tofinishethe Countrey Rate," 
a list of the taxpayers was made in 
which, among many others, appear the 
following names with amount due from 

each. £ f d 

* * * 

Lief t Josh. Fisher 01 04 02 

* * * 

Joh. Bacon 00 17 01 

* * * 

Joh. Reade 00 03 04 

The next item comes in the entry : 
"26 of 10.59" (26th of December, 
1659), Liberty of sojourning granted to 
Sam. Crosse, Sam. Gore and Jno. Reade. 
Libertie is given to Samll. Crosts to 
sojourne at James Thorps so long as 
he demeane himselfe as he ought. The 
like libertie is given to Samll. Gore to 
sojourne at Ralph Dayes upon like 
condition. 

The like libertie is granted to John 
Reade to sojourn at Lieft Fishers upon 
the same caution." 

This action was in accordance with 
the laws and customs of those times. 
No stranger might come into any town 
to stay without the town officers in- 
vestigating his character and means, 
and if he appeared undesirable or likely 
to become a burden financially he was 
" warned out of the town," told to de- 
part, and means taken to enforce the 
edict. But if permission was given to 
stay, some townsman became responsi- 
ble for him. No idlers were allowed, 
and everyone must work and prove 
ability to support himself and family if 
he had one. 

From the action above regarding 
John Reade it is certain that he was a 
newcomer in Dedham but considered 
worthy to become a townsman : and 
the following list of the years in which 
he paid taxes proves that he stayed for 
some little time. Of Samuell Crosse 
and Samuel Gore the town records con- 



tain no further mention, so it is evident 
they soon left. The latter may have 
been that Samuel Gore noted by Sav- 
age, son of John of Roxbury, 1635. 

"COUNTRY & TOWN RATES" 
The year begins with month of March. 
14. of 9 mo. 1660, John Reade, 00,02,06 
2 of 10 mo. 1661, John Reade, 00,03,04 
1 of 10 mo. 1662, John Read, 00, 03,08 
7 December 1663, John Read, 00,04, 00 



31 December, 1663, "A list of those 
that are further defecttive in there 
highway worke this yeare 1693, 

John Read a day." 
21 of 9, (16)64, Joh. Read, 0,3,11 
15 10 (16)64, The account of the 
Surveyors of highway worke for 
the p'sent yeare (16)64 the names 
of the p'sons and the summes yet 
behinde Joh. Reade, 3, 



25, 11, 64 (25th January, 1664-5) 
Lieft Fisher upon the agreemt. with the 
Select men undertake sufficiently to 
cutt up the shruffe in the buriall place 
and all the length in the west side of 
the Church Lott one rodd broade, for 
which he is assigned to receave of the 
men heere under named the severall 
summes where in they are defective in 
their high wayeworke theyeare last past, 
Sergt Avery 6s-0, Joh. Hayward 2-0, 
Jam: Grante 3-0, Joh: Reade 3-0, Dan: 
Makiah 1-0, Joh: Perry 1-0: Joh: Little- 
field Tymo: Dwight qoluntarrily pmsie 
to give 2. 



"The select men understanding that 
Joh: Read offered posts and Rayles to 
sell called him to inquire where or by 
what right he took that Timber and 
finding that he had felled the timber for 
Lieft: Fishers use and appointed for 
him, who allowed of no such sale, and 
not understanding that he had yet sold 
any, he was seariously warned and 
advised not to cutt or sell any of tnd 
Townes Timber upon any p'tense con- 



10 



THE READE RECORD 



trary to Towne order, upon penaltie 
of payeing wt. by order may be im- 
posed upon him. 

The Petition — 1665 

A number of the townsmen of Ded- 
ham signed a petition May 3, 1665, to 
"The Gen. Court att Boston," in which 
it is stated that all the subscribers are 
" yet nonfrcemen/'that is, not members 
of the church, who alone had the right 
to vote or hold any elective office. 
John Read was of this number. 

Seemingly a laborer, his signature to 
the original petition in the archives at 
the Mass. State House, Vol. 106, p. 1 10, 
(afac-simile of it printed in Dedham 
Town Records, p. 277) is firm and clear 
and indicates a man of some education ; 
and yet it is open to question if it may 
not have been written for him by an- 
other hand as well as other names in 
the same column. 

The petition relates that '' Many in 
our Stat(e) and relation are dissatisfied 
with and disaffected to the this present 
governament '" * * * evidently a protest 
on the part of those who considered the 
restriction to church membership an 
injustice. " But,'' continues the peti- 
tion, "it is altogether untrue in respect 
of us ye subscribers hereof." * We 
are af rayed least our silence in this 
juncture of time might lay us under ye 
curse pronounced against Meroz Judg 
5, for not coming out to helpe ye Lord 
against ye mightie. * * * We purpose & 
p'mise to be assisting to yorselves to 
ye uttermost with our p'sons lives and 
states when so ever need shall be." 

A similar petition signed by the non- 
freemen of Boston, presented to the 
" Great and General Court," May, 1665, 
is in the archives, Vol. 106, p. 111. 

The true politician's craft is seen 
here at work. The very men who are 
under disability by reason of the church 
law are brought forward to sustain by 
this petition the right of the ecclesias- 
tic powers to hold them in bondage ! 

This is the last reference that is 
found in the Dedham records concern- 
ing John Reade. He was not a land- 



owner and had no family. Nothing is 
known as to his age except that he must 
be presumed to be of age — 21 years or 
more — when he came into the town, as 
he paid taxes, and that he resided these 
some six years. Evidently he left Ded- 
ham soon after 1665. Where did he go 1 
Perhaps to the coast of Maine or New 
Hampshire where the fresh salt-water 
breezes blew in from the ocean, and life 
was organized on a freer and more en- 
joyable basis. Who knows? 



JOHN REED, OF NORWALK, CONN. 

It should be said in the interest of truth that 
no satisfactory evidence has yet been produced 
to show that John Reed, of Norwalk, came 
from Cornwall, England, or that he was an 
officer in Cromwell's army, as stated in the 
otherwise fine book, "Reed-Read Lineage," by 
Ella Reed-Wright (pub. 1909.) Nor any proof 
that he was entitled to the coat of arms therein 
given. This account may be considered a gen- 
ealogical "fairy story" based on tradition until 
additional evidence is had to prove the con- 
trary. A.H.R. 



REED - BALDWIN - FERRIS 

A correction should be made in regard to the 
marriage of Sarah Reed, daughter of William 
and Deborah (Baldwin) Reed as stated in the 
No. X. Reade Record. The relation stands 
thus : 

Nathaniel and Joanna (Westcoat) Baldwin of 
Milford, Conn., removed to Fairfield prior to 
1641, and had daughters Sarah 3 , b. 1650, m. 
Joseph Barlow ; Deborah 2 , b. 1652, m. William 
Reed (of Fairfield, Conn.); Samuel, b. 1655, 
in Fairfield. [Baldwin Gen. pp. 406-411, 1082.] 

William and Deborah Reed had daughter 

Sarah, b. abou' 1675, who married Zachariah 

Ferris 2 of Stratford and New Milford, Conn., 

son of Zachaiiah Ferris' of Charlestown, Mass. 

[Orcutt's Hist. New Milford, p. 694 

Savage Gen. Diet.] 

The memoirs of the Life of David Ferris, an 
approved minister of the Society of Friends, 
written by himself," and pub. 1825, contains 
no reference to any ancestor, either Ferris or 
Reed, other than his father and mother. He 
was born at Stratford, Conn., the 10th May, 
1707. He was a grandson of Nathaniel Ferris, 
of Charlestown, Mass. Subsequent statements 
as to a Samuel Ferris who came from Reading, 
England [Revised Edition, 1855], and to his 
supposed wife, Jerusha Reed [Orcutt's Hist. 
New Milford, p. 694], cannot be relied upon 
without investigation. The tradition may re- 
late to David's great grand parents in England. 



THE READE RECORD 



11 



©bituaries 



GEN. PHILIP READE 
Our members will hear with great regret 
of the decease, Oct. 21, 1919. in Boston, of 
Brig. General Philip Reade, U. S. A. ( re- 
tired), President of the Reade Society to 
which office he was elected Oct. 27. 1915. 
He was much interested in its work and 
in writing papers concerning Colonial times 
and affairs for publication. A tall, blue- 
eyed, fair complexioned man, genial in 
conversation, which in every word of utter- 
ance evinced a thorough knowledge of his 
subject, yet he was always the Military Man 
in appearance, a commanding figure where- 
ever he went. He was born in Lowell, 
Mass., Oct. 13. 1844 and was a lineal des- 
cendant of Thomas Read of Chelmsford, 
1656. His ancestral lines were published 
in the Reade Record No. X. His military 
services were many and too long to be set 
forth here, but can be read in part in the 
"Commendation" published in the Reade 
Record No. XI, but more fully in the 
Obituary Notice in the Boston transcript 
of October 21, 1919. Suffice it to say that 
he began as a youth in the Civil War. then 
from West Point became a Lieut, in 1867. 
took part in the Indian Wars on the Plains. 
In 1875-1878 built across 1.500 miles of wil- 
derness and mountains the first telegraph 
line to the Pacific Coast, for which he re- 
ceived the thanks of New Mexico, Arizona 
and California. He was in the Cuban War, 
the Philippines and among the Moros, etc. 
He was a member of many civil, military 
and fraternal orders, by whom his funeral 
services were performed at Trinity Church, 
Copley Square, Boston, and his remains 
taken "to Lowell, Mass., for interment. In 
1878 General Reade married Miss Jessie 
Eaton of Troy, N. Y. She died several 
years ago. There were no children. The 
nearest "kin are two cousins, former Adju- 
tant General Gardner W. Pearson of Low- 
ell and Fisher H. Pearson, also of Lowell. 

MRS. MARY REED SMITH, 
a member of the Society, died at her home 
in Newton, Mass., on February 5, 1920 in 
the seventy-seventh year of her age. Mrs. 
Reed was the widow of Samuel F. Smith, 
who was the son of Samuel F. Smith, the 
author of our national hymn, "America." 

Mrs. Anna Reed Wilkinson. 
A Member (widow of Henry W. Wil- 
kinson) died Oct. 5, 1918 in her 81st year 
at her home in Providence, R. I. An es- 
timable lady and a loss to our society. A 
sister to Mrs. Samuel F. Smith of Newton 
Center. 



WILLIAM H. REED 

A valued member of the Reade Society-. 
Was a Colorado Pioneer. Died at his home 
in Denver, Jan. 30, 19, where funeral serv- 
ices were held and then his remains taken 
to Colorado Springs and interred in Ever- 
green Cemetery by the Masonic Fraternjty. 
Born in Scarborough, Cumberland Co., 
Maine. Oct. 26, 1840. His early life spent 
on his father's farm and attending the pub- 
lic schools. In 1860 went West to Illinois 
where he attended Plainfield College and 
teaching school until 1863 when he moved 
to Gilpin Co., Colorado and engaged in 
mining. Served 4 years as Deputy Post- 
master in Central City. In 1872 moved to 
El Paso Co., Colo., where he embarked in 
the stock business, being for years one 
of the largest sheep owners in the state. 
Retired from business and was clerk and 
recorder of El Paso Co. for 7 years. 

He is survived by his widow, one daugh- 
ter, Mrs. Lalla Reed Estey, and one grand- 
daughter, Mrs. Edwin S. Kassler, Jr., all 
of Denver. 

AARON A. REED 

A member greatly interested in genealogy. 
Died at his residence in Whitman, Feb. 11, 
1917, his daughter, Mrs. Florence Reed 
Riggs, writes us under date of Oct. 2. 18. 

WILLIAM READ 
of Cambridge, Mass., who was for many 
years a member of the Society, died in 
that city on February 22, 1919. Mr. Read, 
who was born in Cambridge on March 16, 
1832 was the son of William Read and Sal- 
ly G. Atkins, his wife. He was engaged 
with his father and brothers for many years 
in the well-known sporting goods firm of 
William Read and Sons of Boston. 

MISS ELIZABETH REED, 
a member, died May 4, 1918, in the house, 
7 Louisburg Square, Boston, in which she 
was born in 1838 and where, all her life, 
she had resided. At the time of the mar- 
riage of her parents, her father built this 
house and it has been the home of the 
family ever since. She was a sister of 
the Rev. James Reed, who was for several 
years President of the Reade Society. 

Mrs. Clara Isabel Reed Hubbard. 
A Life Member, the wife of Dr. Charles 
T. Hubbard, died May 30, 1919, at her home 
in Church Green. Taunton, Mass. A most 
gracious lady whose loss is deplored. 



LIFE MEMBERS OF THE READE SOCIETY 



Andrews, Mrs. Ella Reed New York, N. Y. 

<; rich, Mrs. Ella Reed Hartford, Coim. 

Bodges, .Miss .Mart A. Foxboro, Mass 

Larkin, Mrs. Frances H. Buffalo. N. Y. 

Lefferts, Marshall C. New York. N. Y. 

Harden, Mrs. Harriet A. Reed The Dalles, <>. 
Morse, Willard S. New York, N. Y. 

Morton. Mrs. Florence E. Reed 

Worcester, Mass. 
Read, Charles F. Brookline, Mass. 

Bead, Miss Clara A. New Bedford, Mass 

Read, Edmund S. 
Read, Miss Ella H. 
Read, Franklin F., 2nd 
Read, George B. 
Read, George W. 
Read, Joseph 
Read, James Paulding 
Read, Miss Margaret H 
Read, Samuel H. 
Reed, Alanson H. 



Washington, D. C. 

New Bedford, Mass. 

Pittsfleld, Mass. 

Bloomington, ills. 

Taunton, Mass 

Sumnierside, P. E. I 

Newark. N. J. 

New York. N. Y. 

New Haven, Conn. 

Wellesley Hills. Mass 



Reed, Charles W. 




Boston, 


Mass. 


Reed, Edgar 




Worcester, 


Mass. 


Reed, Miss Ellen A. 




New Haven, 


Conn. 


Reed, Horatio M. 




New York, 


N. Y. 


Reed, James 




I'.nslon. 


Mass. 


Reed, James II. 




* 'hrlsra. 


Mass. 


Reed, John S. 




I'.ostou. 


Mass. 


Reed, Marion B. 




Lowell, 


Mass. 


Keed, Robert C. 




Boston, 


Mass. 


Robinson. Mrs. Grace Read 


New York, 


N. Y. 


Storey, Hampton L. 




Altadena, 


Calif. 


Warren, Mrs. Catherine 


Reed 


Cambridge, 


Mass. 


Waterman, Mrs. Lewis 


a. 


Providence, 


R. I. 


Wells, Wellington 




Boston, 


Mass. 


•Reade, Edgar s. 








♦Read. Joshua '\v. 








•Reads, Philip 








•Read, Miss Sarah E. 








•Read, William A. 








•Reed. William B. 









Crane. Joshua E. 
Albert < !i bh ing Rkad 
Read. Arthur William 



HONORARY MEMBERS 
Brldgewater, Mass. | Reads, Ai.evn Lyell 



V ash ing ton, Ii C 
Leicester, England 



Head, Reuben L. 



Akin. Mrs. Emma Reed 

Alley. John S. 

Allison, Isaiah 

Atwood, Joshua 

Bamford, Mrs. Eleanor M 

Bishop, Miss Emma A. 

Blackmer, Mrs. Catherine Tufts College, Mass. 

Blanch ard, John S. C. So. Weymouth. Mass 

Blanchard, Miss Mary L. So. Weymouth, Mass 

Blanchard, Miss Susanna Read 

So. Weymouth, Mass 
Brimmer, Mrs. Mary A. 
Burns. Harry L. 
Champion. William J. 
Clarke. Arthur F. 
Clarke, Miss Helen G. 
i i . Charles Read 
Cross, Mrs. John A. 
Dodd, Rev. Henry M. 
Elwei.l, Mrs. Cynthia A. 

i . Mus. L.u.i. a Reed Colorado Springs, Colo 

Everett. Mrs. Charlotte S. Chicago, Ills. 

Fir:, Mus, Virginia Reed Los Angeles, Calif. 

Field. J. Howard Brockton. Mass 

Fletcher. Miss Grace G. Boston, Mass. 

Fletcher, Harry G. West Somervillc. Mass. 

Foote, Mrs. Emma B. Scranton, Pa. 

Hallett, Frank T. New York, N. Y. 

Harmon, Mrs. Elizabeth A. Jacksonville, Fla. 
Hutchinson, Edward B. Cambridge, Mass. 

Jackson, Mrs. Mary A. Reed East Orange, N. J. 
Johnson. Alfred Brookline, Mass. 

Kelly, George R. Boston, Mass. 

Kern, Mrs. Catherine Reed, W. D. 



ANNUAL MEMBERS 
New Y.Tk, N. Y. Read, Melbourne S. 



Pelham, X. Y. 
Taylorville, Ind 

Boston, Mass. 
Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 
Cadillac, Mich. 



Lisbon, N. H. 
Eveleth, Minn. 
Boston, Mass. 
Brookline, Mass. 
Brookline, Mass. 
Washington, D. C. 
Providence, R. I. 
Clinton, N. Y. 
So. Weymouth. Mass. 



Washington. D. C. 

Brookline, Mass. 

Wohurn, Mass. 



Kimball, Mrs. Helen F. 
Kneeland, Benjamin C. R. 

Levings. Mrs Elizabeth Reed New Y'ork, N. Y. 
Lewis. James E. Taunton. Mass. 

Marshall, Miss Adalinb T. York Village, Me. 
Merriam, Mrs. Helen R. Syracuse, N. Y. 

Merrow, Mrs. Rena M. Maiden. Mass. 

McNicol, Mrs. I'.ernice E. Reed 

Jewett City, Conn. 
Morss, Mrs. Everett Boston, Mass. 

Nead, Mrs. Rose W. Reading, Pa. 

Norton, Mrs Myrtle P. West Somerville, Mass. 
Parsons, Mrs Mary A. Reid Avon Lake, Ohio 
Pettee, Mrs. Georgiana E. Brookline. Mass. 

Prescott, Miss Clara F. Lawrence, Mass. 

Preston. Mrs. Antoinettb Reed Norwich. Conn. 
Proutt, Mrs. Mary Reed Boston. Mass 



Raymond, Daniel V. 
Read, Andrew J. 
Bead, Charles A. 
Read, Charles F. 
Read, Clarence F. 
Read, Miss Ed;th B. 
Read, Edward M. 
Read, Rev. Ephraim 
Read, George R. 
Read, Harold C. 
Read, Henry C, Jr. 
Read, Mrs. Henry N. 
Read, Capt. Hernando M. 
Read, Miss Margaret 
READ, Miss MARY E. 



Tompkinsville, N. Y 

Boston. Mass. 

Manchester, Mass 

Worcester. Mass. 

Wellsville. N. Y, 

Brookline, Mass. 

St. Louis. Mo. 

Eastondale, Mass, 

New York, N. Y. 

Wellesley Hills, Mass. 

Cambridge, Mass. 

Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Lexington. Va. 

Port Elgin, N. P.. 

Brooklyn, N. Y. 



Reade, B. Clinton 
Reade, Josiah T. 
Reed, Alamson L. 
Keed, Albert A. 
Reed, Albert M. 
Reed, Alonzo B. 
Reed, Carrol R. 
Reed, Charles Dana 
Reed, Charles K. 
Reed, Miss Clara M. 
Keed, Clarence D. 
Reed, Dana 
Reed, Edward D. 
Reed, Edward M. 
Reed, Edward T. 
Reed, Miss Emily P. 
Reed, Ervin E. 
Reed, Eugene W. 
Reed, Miss Flora C 
Reed, Dr. Floyd O. 
Reed, Francis B. 
Keed. Fred L. 
Reed, George A. 
Reed, George M. 
Reed, Capt. George W. 
Reed, Harold F. 
Reed, Miss Helen Leah 
Reed, Henry B. 
Reed, Homer J. 
Reed, John H. 
Reed, John W., Jr. 
Reed, J. Russel 
Reed, Miss Lillian 
Heed, Miss Lucy H. 
Reed, Miss Mae I. 
Reed, Mrs. Margaret E. 
Reed, Montgomery 
Reed, Morris A. 
Reed, Ralph D. 
Reed, Samuel B. 
Reed, Rev. Seth 
Reed, Miss Temperance 



*Deeeased 



Liverpool, England 
South Acton. Mass. 



Hamilton, N. Y. 

Si John, N. B. 
Lombard, Ills. 
Blltmore, N. C. 
Boulder, Colo. 
Albany. N.- Y. 
West Somerville, Mass. 
Rockl'ord, Ills. 

lies Moines, Iowa 

Worcester, Mass. 

Westliehl, Mass. 

Whitman. Mass. 

Coon Rapids, Iowa 

Buffalo. N. Y. 

Wellesley Hills. Mass. 

Albany, N. Y. 

Belmont, Mass. 

Molltieello, Iowa 

No. Brookfleld, Mass. 

Long Beach, Calif. 

Yolikers, N. Y. 

East Weymouth. Mass. 

Cohasset, Mass. 

Montpelier. Vt. 

Keene, N. H. 

Boston, Mass. 

Brookline, Mass. 

Cambridge, Mass. 

Auburndale, Mass. 

Canandaigua, N. Y. 

Amenia. No. Dak. 

Benton Harbor, Mich. 

Boston, Mass. 

Washington. D. C. 

So. Weymouth. Mass. 

Columbus, Ohio 

Boston. Mass. 

Boston, Mass. 

St. Joseph. Mo. 

Manchester, N. H. 

Boston. Mass. 

Flint, Mich. 



Pelham Manor, N. Y. 
Brockton, Mass. 
New York. N. Y. 
Washingtonville, N. Y. 



Reed, Hon. Warren A. 

Keed. William E. 

Reed, William E. 

Reed, Prof. William Howell 

Roxbury, Mass. 
Reed, William N. P. New York. N. Y. 

Reed, William R. New Brunswick, N. J. 

Reid, David S. Winstou-Salem. N. C. 

Reid, Miss M. Christine New York, N. Y. 

Keid. Robie L. Vancouver, B. C. 

Russell, Miss H. Priscilla Arlington. Mass. 
Russell, Mrs. Louisa S. 
Sargent, Allan C. 
Smith. Mrs. Samuel F. 
SorER, Mrs. Emma P. 
Stevens, Mas Sara Reed 
Stowell. Mrs Charles H. 
Taylor, Raymond 
Washburn, Mrs. Grace B. 
Watres, Mrs. Effie J. H. 
W;i'M. Mrs Ellen Reed 
Wells, Miss Alemeda 
Williams. Rt. Rev. G. Mott 
Wright. Hon. Riley E. 



Arlington. Mass. 

GranitPvllIe, Mass. 

Newton Centre, Mass. 

Charlestown, N. H. 

Portland. Me. 

Lowell, Mass. 

Weston. Vt. 

Brookline. Mass. 

Scranton, Pa. 

Scituate, Mass. 

North East. Pa. 

Annapolis, M<1 

Baltimore, M<i 









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XLhc IReabe IRecovfc - 



Numb.-r XIII. 



BOSTON, MASS, U.S.A. 



1920 



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• 



THE READE SOCIETY 



FOR GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH 



ORGANIZED 1904 



1607 - 1620 

God gnarde and speed ye safe 

o'er sea. 
Thou dauntless little shlppes 

oi Fate, 

To where thy unknown Har- 
bours He: — 




INCORPORATED 1914 



Thy freight, the freedom of 

a worlde 
That in distress and hope 

awaits 
The coming of lhat happy 

daye. 



The Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the Reade Society was 
held in Kimball Hall, New England Historic-Genealogical Society, 
9 Ashburton Place, Boston, October 29, 1920, according to a 
notice mailed to members. 

The meeting was called to order by Henry B. Reed, President 
of the Society. The report of the Treasurer was read and ap- 
proved. It showed that the Society had had a prosperous year, with 
all bills paid. The Permanent Fund, composed of Life Member- 
ship Fees invested in United States Liberty Bonds, amounted to 
$500.00, and $3S.46 remains uninvested. 

The Secretary's Report was read, approved, and placed on file. 
It showed a gain of 28 members during the year, and that the 
present membership (to November, 1920) is 34 Life, 5 Honorary, 
and 130 Annual Members, a total of 169. 

A suggestion was made that the Society's Coat of Arms might 
be changed in some slight details, and that prizes should be offered 
to stimulate efforts to secure a larger membership. These sug- 
gestions were referred to the Executive 'Co/iiifiit&eVfor consideration. 

The Election of Officers was then helrl for whibh see page 2. 

Informal remarks regarding the welfare of the Society were 
then made by several members. At the close of the meeting all 
joined in singing "Auld Lang Syne" and "America." Refreshments 
were served, Mrs. Everett Morss and Miss Helen Leah Reed pour- 
ing tea. The Society then adjourned until the next annual meet- 
ing in October, 192 1. 

ALANSON H. REED, 

Secretary. 



Old State House 

Boston 9, Massachusetts 

October 29, 1920. 









THE READE RECORD 






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WILL OF JONATHAN READ, 1776 

OF SMITHFIELD, RHODE ISLAND 
By George S. Stewart 



Is the Name of God, Amen, I 
Jonathan Read of Smithfield, in the 
County of Providence and Colony of 
Rhode Island, yeoman, being far ad- 
vanced in age, but in good health and 
memory, Blessed be God Therefor, do 
'this fifteenth day of March, Anno 
Domini 1776, make and publis this, my 
last will and testament, in manner and 
form following that is to say. 

Imprimis I commend my soul into 
the hands of Almighty God who gave 
it me, and my Body to the Earth from 
when it came and as for that Worldly 
Estate Wherewith it has Pleased God 
to Bless me with I Dispose thereof as 
follows etc after my just debts and 
Euneral Charges are Paid. 

Item I Give and Bequeath to my 
Loving Wife Sarah Reed my Best Bed 
and Furniture to be and Belong to her 
forever. Item I give and Bequeath to 
my said Wife Sarah Reed all my house- 
hold goods and Indoor Furniture Ex- 
cept my wearing apparel During the 
time she shall live and remain my 
widow and afterward In Case of Death 
or Marriage of my said widow my will 
is my daughter Anne Taft [have] one 
bed and bedding to her heirs and as- 
signs forever; after my decease [my) two 
daughters Anne Taft and Sarah Gaskill 
have the Said Personal Estate Before 
mentioned to be equally Divided Be- 
tween them, their heirs and assigns. 

Item I give and bequeath to my 
son Oliver Read all my live stock and 
half my wearing apparel. 

Item I Give and Bequeath to my 
son Aaron Read the other half of my 
wearing apparel not yet disposed of. 
The reason of my not giving my other 
children nothing in this my will is I 



have given them alteady as much as I 
am able. Namely Jonathan, Benjamin, 
John, Hanson, and Daniel Read and 
Elizabeth Allen. 

I make and ordain her my said Wife 
Sarah Read Sole Executrix of this My 
Will and my Son ( )liver Read Overseer 
to take care and see the same per- 
formed according to my true intent and 
meaning. 

I Do hereby utterly disannull revoke 
disallow all and every other former or 
other Testament Will Legacy and Be- 
quest and Executor by me in any way 
before Named Willed or Bequeathed 
Ratifying and Confirming this and no 
other to be my last Will and Testa- 
ment. 

In Witness Whereof I have here- 
unto set my hand hand and seal the 
Day and Year above written. 



(seal) 



JONATHAN READ. 



Signed Sealed Published and De- 
clared by the Jonathan Read as and 
his Last Will and Testament in the 
Presence of us whose names are here- 
under written who did each of us sub- 
scribe our names as witnesses and in 
his presence. 

Ebenezer Trask 
Jonathan Trask 
Stephen Arnold 



A true copy. Attest : 

Crawford M. Fairbanks, 



City Clerk. 



Seal of the 

City of Central Falls , 

Rhode Island 






\ 



T II K READE RECORD 



At a Town Council held in Smith- 
held in the County of Providence, etc, 
on the 31st day of May A.D. 1779. 

The last Will and Testament of Jona- 
than Read Late of Smithfield Deceased 
was laid on the Board Before this Coun- 
cil by Sarah Read Who was named 
Executrix as she was appointed and 
desired the same might be Proved by 
this Council ; and Ebenezer Trask, Jona- 
than Trask and Stephen Arnold Esq. 
the witnesses unto Sd Will On Solmon 
Engagement Declared that they saw 
the Testator Sign and seal said Will 
Did hear him Publish Pronounce and 
Declare the same to be his last Will 
and Testament at the same time he 
was of a Sound Disposing Mind and 
Memory they in his presence and in 
tha presence of each other subscribed 
their Names as witnesses. Therefore the 
aforesd will be and the same is Proved 
and Approved to be a Lawful Will and 



Testament and the same is Ordered to 
be Recorded. 

And accordingly is Recorded. 

Daniel Mowry, Jr. 

Council Clerk. 



Comment. — Jonathan' 1 Read of Smithfield, 
Rhode Island, was son of Jacob" Reed of 
Salem, Mass. (1652-1745) for whose will, dated 
1742, see Reade Record No. X.; and grandson 
of Thomas 1 Read, "the planter," of Salem 
(Reade List No. 6) 1636-1667, for account of 
whom see Reade Record No. VI. 

James Whitemore Read, in his "History of 
the Reed Family," pub. 1861. erroneously 
states (p. 48) that Thomas'. Read, "the planter,' 
an original immigrant himself, was son of that 
Colonel Thomas Read who came in 1630 
from Wickford, Essex County, England, and 
settled in Salem, Mass., but subsequently re 
turned to England, married and died t here 
leaving no descendants in America. The place 
in England from which Tnomas 1 Read, "the 
planter" came, is unknown. 



R03ERT READ -- 1635-1657 

Boston - Exeter - Hampton 

Reade List No 3 

These additional item ; have been found 
concerning this early immigrant of whom a 
previous »ecount has been giv< n in Reade 
Record No. XI : 

15: 2 | April I 1651. 3 cert, that the 
Gold Lyon of Bristol (Eng.) Win. Strat- 
ton Mr [master | hath here dd. for the 
acc° of Rom KKADtner., 4 peecs cloaths, 
2 caske nailes, halfe a thuu of shotte, & 
6 doz. woolen stockings. Juxt. Cocqt. 
dat XIX" ffeb 1650. -(Aspinwall, p. 22.) 



" The Inventory of the Estate of Rob- 
ert Read Deseced" has been found among 
the Court Records, at Salem, as follows: 

Personal Estate, Amt. 44.13.00 

It. fether bed & boulster, two pillowes 

& flock boulster i.\)3.00.00 

It. a blanket 00.15 00 

It. a flock bed and boulster at 07.00 00 

It. two blankets 00.15.00 

It. a flock bed and boulster at 00.14.00 

It. two blankets 00.12.00 

It. two fether pillowes at 00.09.00 

It. three shettes at 00.16.00 

It. 3 pare shooes 00.17.00 

[Household Utensils, Shoes, Muskets, 

etc. document stained] 24.15.00 

It. Abrain Pearkius to pay 00.03.00 



It. Captin Wiggoner to pay 00.01.00 

It. Antony Stanyer to pay 00.04.05 

It. a barell of befe, 2 ferkings of butter 

toad totheaccompt 03.13.00 

debtes to be paid out of the estate. . .48.08.09 
these several goods prised by us the 29 of 
October 57. Robert Juk (?) |torn] 

John Smithe [torn] 

On the second page of this inventory 
appears the following : 

Real Estate. "We whose names are 
underwrighten being called to prise the 
house and ground [in Boston] that was Rob- 
ert Read Deceased the same being bounded 
by the shop of Tho: Mattson & the ground 
& house of John Button [see Reade Rtcord 
No XI) do according to our best skill and 
judgment judg it to be worth forty pounds. 
In witness wheare of we have put to our 
hands this 5 day of the first mo. [March) 
one thousand six hundred fiftv and seaven. 
James Johnson, Geo. Bates, (O) his mark, 
William Cotton, Tho: Marshall. 

This document, No. 23,384, is endorsed 
on the back, "Salisbury Court, 1658, Reads 
Inventory. 

It is a curious incident that Sergt. William 
Cotton, a butcher in Boston, one of the ap- 
praisers above, was also active in the settle- 
ment of the estate of Thomas Read in Boston 
in 1659 (see page 18). 

Were these two related? 



THE READE RECORD 



WILL OF WILLIAM READ 

WOBURN, MASS. - 



William Read. 

"The 9 daie April, 1656." 

My will is that my wife have three- 
score pounds for herselfe. 

Item. Thirty pounds a peece to 
my four youngest children. More, that 
my wife have the household stufi and 
to dispose of it. 

That the three score pounds which 
is owing to me by Mr. William Benton 
in New England be disposed of as 
followeth, if it can be got, viz: 

To my wife twenty pounds. 

To my four youngest children twenty 
pounds (that is five pounds apiece). 

To my three children that are mar- 
ried, in New England, that is. George 
Ralph and Abigail, Twenty pounds, to 
be equally divided amongst them. 

That when any of the foui 
children die, their portion be divided 
among the other three, that is if they 
die in their minority. 

Forty pounds due from Mr. Killing- 
worth, in pounds Mark Theaton of 
of Black Callertoh, 30 pounds from 
Miss Flora Hall, 20 pounds from An- 
thony Walker, 12 pounds— three pound 
in my wife's hand and five pound in 
Mr. Ogles' hand, 40 pounds more in 
the house, George Errington of Long- 
house and his son-in-law, 40 shillings, 
Gawan Anderson, 40 shillings, Mary 
Chicken als Watson four pound ten 
shillings, in my wife's hand is nine 
pound, more in the house 20 shillings 
in commodities, in all makes nine 
score pounds. 

Mark of WM. READ. 
Witness William Cutter 
the mark of Thomas Gibson. 



1656 

-- NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE, ENG. 

(Reade List No. 4) 

longing, to Mabel] Read, widow, the 
relict of Willm Read, late of Newcastle- 
upon Tyn deceased, greeting : 

Whereas the said William Read, late 
of New Castle upon Tin, deced, Greet- 
ing: Whereas tin- said William Read 
made his last Will & Testament, which 
is hereunto annexed, and therein made 
nor constituted no executor or execu- 
tors, but nominated & appointed the 
said Mabell Read, his wife, principal] 
legatrix, We therefore give and grant 
full power and authority unto you the 
said Mabell Read widow admster." 



"ADMSTRACION." 

"Oliver, Lord Protector of the Com- 
onwealth of England, Scotland and 
Ireland or the Dominions thereto Be- 



Given at London under ye seale of 
the I lourt for pb Ite of Wills, and grant- 
ing adcons the last day of i >ctob, L656. 
Robt. Blackford, B. Sanhege. Nath. 
Cotthkegs, & a seal Annexed, now 
testo annexo ubi Exec, aut ubi null us. 
Mr. Watson. Entered and recorded 
17: 12, 1661, by 
Thomas Danforth, Recorder. 
COMMENT 

The above Will is from Henry F. Waters' 
"Gleanings," which gives the correct date 
and name "Abigail" in place of "Michael'' 
as in Middx. Reg. of Probates, Vol. 1. from 
whuh above letter of administration is taken. 
An account of William Read oi Woburn wall 
be found in the Reade Record Nos. \' and XT- 
He came in the ship "Defence" from Lon- 
don in 1635, with wife Mabell and children. 

He returnel to England prior to 1652 
with his wife and younger children and 
died there in 1656, as seen by the will 
above. Widow Mabell returned later with 
her children, and Nov. 21, 1660, married 
(2) Henry Somrners, Sr., of Watertown, 
whom she survived. (See her will, page 11.) 
She died in 1690, aged 85. 

Ancillary administration on William 
Read's estate was taken out Feb. 17. 1661-2- 
(Middx. Reg. Prob., vol. 1, p. 281.) 

Will of sou George, yeornan, elated 1697, 
probated 1706, Middx. Reg. Probates. For 
son Ralph's will, see Reade Record No. VI. 



THE R E A D E RKCORI) 



[ WICKFORD KEADES - by George A. Taylor.'] 



THREE READE SISTERS 



MARGARET - ELIZABETH - MARTHA 



These three sisters settled in New 
England, married eminent men, and left 
issue that have made American history. 
They were daughters of Edmund Reade 
of Wickford, Essex County, England. 
Being Reacles of ancient lineage, it is 
fitting that some account of them should 
find a place in the annals of the Reade 
Society, which will doubtless prove of 
interest to their many descendants in 
America, though not of the name. 

One of their brothers was the well- 
known Colonel Thomas Reade, of Wick- 
ford, Eng., and Salem, Mass., in 1630, 
(of whom later). He returned to Eng- 
land prior to 1642 and died there, leav- 
ing no descendants in America. 
OF THESE THREE SISTERS 

I. Margaret married John Lake and 
came with him to New England. She 
was sometime of New London, Conn., 
and later of Ipswich, Mass., where she 
died in 1672. They had one son, John 
Lake, and two daughters, Hannah and 
Martha. 

Hannah married Capt. John Gallup, 
of Stonington, Conn., killed in action 
with the Indians, Dec. 19, 1675, and 
left issue. 

Martha married, 1647, Thomas 
Harris, of Mass., who died in 1687, leav- 
ing issue. 

II. Elizabeth (sister of above Mar- 
garet) was born at Wickford, County of 
Essex, England, in 1617. She was the 
second wife of John Winthrop, Jr., 
Governor of Connecticut ; died Novem- 
ber 24, 1672, and had the following 
children: 

Elizabeth, born July 24, 1636 ; mar- 
ried (1st) 1658, Rev. Antipas Newman 



of Wenham; m. (2d) 1678, Zerubbabel, 
second son of Gov. John Endicott; died 
December 7, 1716, leaving issue by first 
marriage. Mary, daughter of Elizabeth 
Reade and John Winthrop, died young. 
Lucy, daughter of Elizabeth Reade and 
John Winthrop, born Jan. 28, 1640, and 
married, 1660, Major Edward Palmer 
of New London, and died Nov. 24, 1676 
without issue. Margaret, daughter of 
Elizabeth Reade and John Winthrop, 
born 1646, married, 1665, John Corwin 
of Salem; died Nov 30, 1711, leaving 
issue. Mar/ha, daughter of Elizabeth 
Reade and John Winthrop, third wife 
of Hon. Richard Wharton of Boston ; 
died Sept. 27, 1712: had two daughters. 
Anne, daughter of Elizabeth Reade and 
John Winthrop, second wife of Hon. 
John Richards of Boston ; married 
Sept. 1, 1692, died without issue June 
27, 1704. John Winthrop, eldest son 
of Elizabeth Reade and John Winthrop 
surnamed Fitz John, born at Ipswich, 
Mass., March 14. 1638. Captain in 
army of General Monk. Later in ser- 
vice of Connecticut. Major-General 
command ingexpedit ion against Canada, 
1690. Agent at Court of William and 
Mary. Governor of Connecticut, 1697- 
1707. Died at Boston, Nov. 27, 1707. 
He married Elizabeth, daughter of 
George Tongue of New London. She 
was born October 20, 1653, and died 
April 25. 1731. They had only child, 
Mary, who married, 1701, Colonel John 
Livingstone, eldest son of Robert Liv- 
ingstone, and left no issue. Waitstill, 
second son of Elizab. Reade and John 
Winthrop, born at Boston, Feb. 27, 1642. 
Chief Justice of Massachusetts and 
Major-General of the provincial Forces. 



THE READE RECORD 



Died at Boston, >Jov. 7, 1717, aged 75. 
He had a son John and a daughter 
Anne, who survived him, married and 
left issue. He also had three sons and 
a daughter who died young. All his 
children were by his firs': wife, Mary, 
the daughter of Hon. William Browne, 
of Salem, Mass. She died in Boston, 
June 14, 1690, aged 34. 

Ill- Martha, daughter of Edmund 
Reade of Wickford, County of Essex; 
England, and sister of Thomas Reade, 
married ( 1st ) Daniel Eppes of Kent and 
London, 1621, and left three children 
by this marriage, as follows : Daniel 
Eppes, who married, 1664, Elizabeth 
Symonds, his step-sister, and died leav- 
ing issue. Elizabeth Eppes who mar- 
ried Peter Duncan of Gloucester, Mass. 
She died in 1662. Martha, daughter 
of Edmund Reade and sister of Colonel 
Thomas Reade married (2d) Samuel 



Symonds and was his second wife. 
They were married about 1637 and 
came to New England. She died 1662. 
Samuel Symonds was fourth son of 
Richard Symonds of Great Yeldam, 
County Essex. England, and later of 
Ipswich, Mass, 1637. Deputy-Governor 
of Massachusetts, 1678-79. Martha 
Reade and Samuel Symonds had three 
daughters and one son : Martha, who 
marned( 1st ) John Denison(2d ) Richard 
Martyn of Portsmouth, N.H., and died 
1684, leaving issue by both husbands. 
Ruth, who married, 1659. Rev. John 
Emerson, and died. 1702, leaving issue. 
Priseilla, born 1638, married, 1672, 
Thomas Baker of Topsfield, Mass., had 
six children, died 1734. Samuel, son 
of Martha Reade and. Samuel Symonds, 
Harvard College, 1663, died unmarried, 
1669. 



EDMUND READE OF WICKFORD, Gent. 

COUNTY OF ESSEX, ENGLAND, 1563-1623 
By Alanson H. Reed 



Edmund Reade, baptized May 23, 
1563. Will, November 20, 1623. Bur. 
Dec. 1 following, at Wickford. 

He married (1) Thomasine, daughter 
of Thomas Wallenger of Chelmsford. 
Buried there Dec. 7, following. 

He married (2) Elizabeth, daughter 
of Thomas Cooke of Pebmarsh, County 
Essex, whose will, P.C.C. 94, Dale is 
dated August 30, 1621. 

By wife Elizabeth he had twe sons 
named Edmund, both of whom died 
young. 

Three daughters (the above-named 
sisters, Margaret, Elizabeth and Mar- 
tha), and three sons, viz. ; 

I. William of Birchanger, Co. Essex, 
Gent. Will P.P.C. 345 Pell, in which 
he names sisters Winthrop, Lak<; and 



Symonds. He died April 3, 1659, and 
was buried in Birchanger Chancel. He 
married Anne, daughter and heir of 
Thomas Aleyn of Icklingham, County 
Suffolk and later of Braughin, County 
Herts., who made will, Arch. London, 
Essex and Herts, October 21, 1633. 

They had issue : Aleyn Reade, citi- 
zen and merchant tailor of London. 
Will P.P.C. 116 Ring, March 21, 1678, 
proved Dec. 3, 1679. Had Great and 
Little Annys in Wickford. He married 
Katherine, daughter of Richard Cuth- 
bert of London. Jane and Elizabeth, 
devisees of their grandfather Aleyn, 
died unmarried. Anne, married (1st) 
to Henry Clarke and (2d) to Edward 
Hickes, Dr. of Divinity. 

II. Samuel, second son of Edmund 



THE READE RECORD 



Reade, a physician of Bishops Stortford, 
Co. Herts, 1643. Died apparently in 
1659. 

III. Thomas, third son, of Wickford, 
Gent., and of Salem, Mass., in 1630. 
He returned to England prior to 1642. 
Colonel in the Parliamentary Army and 
Governor of Stirling Castle, Scotland. 
Will proved, London, Nov. 6, 1662. 

He married Priscilla, daughter of 
John Banks of Maidstone, and had 
issue, six children, all born in England. 
Among them Samuel Read of London, 
merchant. Kinsman and final executor 



of Aleyn Read, March 30, 1683. Living 
1714. (Of Col. Thomas Reade later). 

Edmund Readers widow, Elizabeth, 
married ( 2d (Hugh Peter the well-known 
soldier preacher of Cromwell's army, 
sometime pastor at Salem, Massachu- 
setts; executed as a regicide, 1660. She 
administered Edmund's estate, 1623-4. 

[Ni ' i E. — Hugh Peter and his ancestors never 
signed their name "Peters." His brother, Kev. 
Thomas, of Saybrook, Connecticut, did spell 
it in the latter form, and the probate of the 
will of another brother shows the spelling 
"Peeters." — G. A. Taylor.J 



ISAAC READ, RECTOR OF WRABNESS 

ESSEX COUNTY. ENGLAND 



The opinion has been held that this 
man was a son of Thomas Read of 
Colchester, carpenter, who as the rec- 
ords show had a son Isaac who studied 
at Corpus Christi College in 1651, and 
Gouville and Caius College in 1652, 
at Cambridge University, England, hav- 
ing been formerly a scholar in the 
Royal Grammar School in Colchester. 
But there seems to be no record of his 
taking a final college degree, nor, in 
fact, other information concerning 
him until mention is made of him and 
his wife (name unknown) in his 
father's will in 1665 (see Reade Record 
No. XI. The writer in his account of 
the "Sudbury Read Family," published 
in the Reade Record No. XII, accepted 
this opinion, as will be seen therein. 

But then a question seemed to be 
raised by reason of the strict rule of 
the Church of England that required 
a college degree for entry to its minis- 
try; and the further fact that appar- 
antly Thomas of Colchester was of 
that Puritan party predominant in 
that town, and that his son Isaac 
matriculated at Cambridge, the head- 
quarters for education of the Puritan 
ministry. 

Now, the Secretary has had occasion 
in some cases to saw off a limb," so 
to speak, from someone's genealogical 



tree — with sardonic pleasure it seemed 
to some of the victims, especially those 
astride of a limb that left them no 
definite place for nativity in England. 
But now occasion requires that he saw 
oft a limb on his own genealogical 
tree, in that recent investigations have 
proved that Rector Isaac Read of 
Wrabness does not belong to the Col- 
chester (Essex Co.), England, Read 
family of which Thomas, the carpenter, 
was a member. 

In a publication by the Oxford Uni- 
versity, "The Alumin, Oxon: 1500- 
1714" pub. 1887, (p. 1239), may be 
found the following statement: 

Read, Isaac, Gent; Pembroke 
Coll. ; Matriculated, 1630; B.A. 
22, i6jj ; Student of Gray's Inn, 
i6jo (as s. John, City of London, 
Merchant) ; Rector of Wrabness, 
Essex, 1661. See Junta's Gray's 
Inn Reg. and Foster s Index F.cci. 

Mr. Foster is one of the most reliable 
genealogical authorities in England, 
and the entry at Oxford and his state- 
ment above must be conclusive in that 
the rector Isaac Read of Wrabness was 
a son of Jobn Read, a merchant in the 
City of London, and not of Thomas 
Read, the carpenter, at Colchester. 

ALANSON H. REED 



THE R E A I) E RE CO R I) 



WILL OF JOHN REDE 

OF LYME, CONNECTICUT- 1732 
By Geor ?e S, Stewart 



I? Jonathan Rede of Lyme, in the 
County of New London and Colony of 
Connecticut, being weak in body but in 
my rite mind and memory, Do make 
this my last Will and Testament, in 
manner and form as followeth : 

Imprimis: I commit my body to the 
dust to be decently buried at the dis- 
cretion of my exectuors, and my sole I 
commit to God that gave it and a- to 
my outward estate, I do dispose of as 
m manner and form followeth : 

Item : I give to my Lovingwife Deb- 
orah Rede all my movable estate and 
ye House and Improvement of that 
farm I bought of Thomas Clarke com 
monly railed the Hope Yarde During 
her natural life. 

Item: I give to my son Benjamin 
Rede the farm that he now lives on in 
fee simple, provided that he pays to 
my Dafter Jeane the sum of rwentj 
pounds when she cums to be eighteen 
years old. 

Item: I give to my son fohn Rede 
the farm that I bought of Thorn is 
Clarke in fee simply. Provided he pays 
to my son Christopher ye sum of fiftj 
pounds in money when he cums to the 
age of twenty one years of age. 

Item : I give to my son fonathan 
Rede the sum of sixty pounds in money, 
to be paid by my Executors after my 
decease. 

Item : I give to my son George Rede 
the sum of sixty pounds in money to be 
paid after my decease. 

Item: I give to Dafter Mary Griffen 
twenty pounds in money to be paid by 
my Executors after my decease, to bye 
her houssel goods which is all that' I 
intend she shall have for her portion 
with what she has had already. 

Item: I give to my son Christopher 
Rede ten pounds in money to be 
paid to him by my Executors when 
he comes to the age of twenty one 
years old, and 1 order the said ten 

Misprint; should be John Rede. 



pounds to be put out to Interest after 
my decease, until he comes to the age 
of twenty one years old, and my will is 
that ray executors set my said son 
Christopher to scoule one year and 
aftr that to be bound out to a trade. 

And I do appoint my Loving wife 
and my son Benjamin Reed and my 
son John Reed to be Executors to this 
my Last will and Testament and I do 
order all my children to be kinde to 
thare mother and support her in her 
old age. 

Signed, sealed and published this 
21st day of November, in the vear 
1732. his 

(Signed) JOHN O REED (Seal) 
mark 
In presents of us, Samuel Tiffany, 
—John Chapman,— Nath. Matson. 



Recorded in the 6th Hook of Wills for New 
London l>i>irut, folio 163, Aug. 6th 1734 

l'r. RICHD CHRISTOPHER, Clerk. 



STAT] OF CONNI I 

London, ) 



ss. 



County of New I. 

I, Charles E. Mickey, Clerk of the Court of 
Probate, within and for New London, in said 
County of New London, and keeper of the Rec- 
ords and seal hereof, hereby certify that the 
paper hereto annexed is a true and complete 
copy of the will of John Rede ( Reed) as appears 
of record in the records of this Court. 

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set 
my hand and affixed seal of said Court, 
on this 7th day of April, A.D. 1921. 
(seal) Charles E. Hickey, Clerk. 

Comment.— John Reed- of Lyme, Connecti- 
cut, b. Apr. 11th, 1674, Kittery, Me., was the 
only son of John 1 of York County, Me., 1661, 
by wife Mary. The father was killed by the 
Indians at Salmon Falls in 1690. Ancestor of 
the Lyme, Conn., Reeds. ( Reade List No. 26, 

The "History of the Reade Family," 1861, 
p. 461, gives a short account of this family, 
beginning with one "Enoch Reed of Lyme, 
Conn., who was a Colonel in the war of the 
Revolution." He was really a Captain. 



THE READE RECORD 



EPISCOPALIANS IN COLONIAL TIMES 



On Sunday, Aug. 8, 1921, a Pilgrim 
anniversary service was held at the 
Cathedral Church of St. Paul (Episco- 
pal ) Boston, an outdoor service by the 
choir being an enjoyable feature. 

The sermon was delivered by Rev. Dr. 
Edward T. Sullivan of Trinity Church, 
Newton Center. He spoke on the 
early history of New England and other 
sections of the country, and eulogized 
the simple, steadfast virtues of our fore- 
fathers, both in Virginia and Plymouth 
and in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. 

"The work they did stands out in the 
memory of the country. It is our duty 
to hand clown to our successors unim- 
paired the Pilgrim ideals, principles and 
beliefs in the sovereignty of God and the 
need for public and private devotion." 

Then with pardonable pride in the 
history of his own denomination, he 
spoke of the early Episcopalians. 

''I mean to tell you particularly to" 
night about some Episcopalians who 
were numbered among the early settlers 
and patriots of the United States. 

"The first to locate on the peninsula 
afterward called Boston was the Rev. 
William Blackstone; a Church of Eng- 
land clergyman. He bought from the 
Indians that section of the country 
which they called Shawmut and he 
named Trimount or Tremont because 
of three hills, Beacon Hill, Copp's Hill 
and Port Hill. 

"Mr. Blackstone became known as the 
hermit of Shawmut. He pastured his 
cows on what is now known as the 
Common, and lived in a Paradise on 
earth. It was his clear, sparkling 
spring of water that induced the Puri- 
tans to move over to the peninsula, on 
his kindly invitation. His abode was 
upon the western slope of Beacon Hill. 

"But the hermit soon found the pres- 
ence of neighbors not to his liking. 
Controversies arose and he sold his 
great estate for ^150, all the Puritans 
would pay, and moved to Rhode Island, 



— and the Puritans proceeded to build 
Boston on his old domain. In this 
work at a later date the Episcopalians 
did valiant service. 

"A multitude of membersof the Epis- 
copal Church aided in settling New 
England. The Episcopal Church has 
been the spiritual home of many of 
those who founded the Nation. It was 
an Episcopal Church, the Old North 
Church, which flashed the lights which 
commenced the Revolutionary War. 
Two Episcopalians, Robert Newman 
and John Pulling, placed the lanterns 
as directed by Paul Revere. It was an 
Episcopalian, Patrick Henry, who said 
those famous words 'Give me liberty, 
or give me death.' 

"The Episcopal Church was the nurs- 
ery of patriots, and gave a long roll of 
illustrious names to the cause of Ameri- 
can liberty. Washington, Hamilton, 
Madison, Jefferson and Marshall, called 
the founders of America, were all 
Episcopalians. Of the 56 signers of 
the Declaration of Independence 36 
were Episcopalians, and of the signers 
of the constitution two - thirds were 
Episcopalians. 

"And let us not forget that four out 
of five of these founders of America 
came from Virginia ; the fifth was born 
in the West Indies. The first free Gov- 
ernment in this country was set up in 
an Episcopal Church in Jamestown, Va., 
in 1619. 

"The population of the Middle and 
Southern Atlantic Colonies had in it a 
very large element of Episcopalian or 
Church of England members. 

"When the Mayflower dropped ancho 
the three great principles — representa 
tive government, universal suffrage and 
trial by jury — had been incorporated in 
the Jamestown Plantation. It was a 
Virginian, Captain John Smith, who 
named Plymouth, the Charles River, 
and Cape Ann. His maps were in 
posession of the Pilgrims when they 
left England." 



10 



THE READE RECORD 



CHRISTOPHER READ, 1672-1696 

BOSTON - CAMBRIDGE - DUNSTABLE 
By G. A. Taylor 



(Reade List No. 31) 

It would appear from copy of depo- 
sition made by Christopher Read 27 
Apr., 1689, that the year of his birth 
was about 1640, as in the case of Hill 
v. Oppinson (Suffolk Co. Files) he is 
said to be 40 years of age. In 1672 he 
was a tanner, of Boston, and the same 
year witnessed the will of Elizh Brig- 
ham. He was taxed in 1674 and, 
presumably, in other years. His wife, 
Katherine, was admitted to the Old 
South Church in 1673. In 1674 he 
removed to Cambridge, and the same 
year he bought a homestead there. He 
was chosen a constable of Cambridge 
Nov. 12, 1677, collector January 13, 
1678-9, surveyor November 12, 1683, 
tithingman March 17, 1683-4. He sold 
his homestead in Cambridge June 20, 
16S5, and the same year removed to 
Dunstable, where he and John Love- 
well, Sr., were tanners. 

If his residence in Dunstable was 
brief, his name is firmly written into the 
early annals of the settlement. He was 
a selectman and was appointed on 
many committees. 

In 1674 settlements were begun along 
the margin of Salmon Brook which 
afforded fish in abundance and consid- 
erable motive-power, and were extended 
southwards down that stream and along 
the right bank of the Merrimack river. 
A garrison house was soon erected, and 
invited by the rich alluvial soil, the 
heavy timber growth, and the liberal 
policy of the proprietors, the tide of 
emigration set in rapidly to the new 
and hopeful town. 

It numbered soon among its actual 
inhabitants John Acres, John, William 
and Samuel Beale, John Blanchard, An- 
drew Cook, Isaac, John and Thomas 
Cummings, Henry Farwell, Samuel 
French, John and Sam'l Gould, Joseph 
Hassell, John, John Jr., and Joseph 



Lovewell, Thomas Lund, Robert Par- 
ris, Obadiah Perry, Robert Proctor, 
Christopher Read, John Sollendine, 
Christopher Temple, Edward Tyng, 
Jonathan Tyng, Robert Usher, Daniel 
and John Waldo, Samuel Warner, 
Thomas Weld, Joseph Wheeler, and 
Samuel Whiting, son of the Rev. John 
Whiting of Billerica." (Mason). 

On July 23, 1689, Christopher 
Read joined with John Blanchard, John 
Lovewell, Robert Parris and Samuel 
Whiting in a petition to the Governor 
and Council and Company of Repre- 
sentatives then assembled at Boston 
asking for men to help garrison the 
town against the Indians. 

Again, on July 31, 1689, the same 
parties petition in behalf of Samuel 
Addams, owner of a corn mill, "without 
the use of which mill the Towne can 
not subsist and therefore we doe intreat 
your honors to allow such a number of 
men as may be able to secure it." 

During the trying times of King 
William's War Christopher Read 
removed from Dunstable to Boston, 
where he died, 1696. Administration 
of his estate was granted to his widow, 
Ratherine, Sept. 3, 1696 (Suff. Co. 
Probates), and in the inventory of his 
estate was a house and land in Dun- 
stable, under mortgage to Peter Town 
of Cambridge. 

In 1710, on the petition of Eliza- 
beth [Read] Whiting of Dunstable, 
the only child of Christopher Read, 
deceased, Col. Joseph Varnum of Dra- 
cut was appointed administrator to sell 
two hundred acres of land in Dracut, 
belonging to the estate of "the late 
Christopher Read." 

Katherine, widow of Christopher 
Read, married (2d) William Green of 
Groton. The intention of marriage was 
published in Boston Nov. 19, 1696. 



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In 1710 she was 'deceased." 
Elizabeth, the only child of Chris- 
topher Read, married in Dunstable, 
January 27, 1686-87, Samuel Whiting, 
who was son of Rev. Samuel and Dorcas 
(Chester) Whiting of Billerica. She 
married (2d), 1717, Wm. Patterson. 

The children of Samuel and Eliza- 
beth (Read) Whiting were : 

I. Samuel, born Oct. 22, 1687. 

II. Elizabeth, born April 26, 1889 ; 
married Dec. 19, 1710, Rev. Samuel Rug- 
gles, son of Samuel and Martha < Wood- 
bridge) Ruggles of Roxbury. He was 
pastor at Billerica. She died July 29, 
1727. They had eight children. 

III. Catherine, born June 10, 1691 ; 
m. Dec. 31, 1714, John Lane, born Oct. 
20, 1691, son of John and Suzannah 



(Whipple) Lane. They lived in bil- 
lerica, where she died April 1, 1731. 
They had six children. 

IV. Leonard, born Aug. 12, 1693. 
Probably settled in Connecticut. 

V. Joseph born Dec. 14. 1695. 
Probably settled in Connecticut. 

VI. Mary, b. Jan. 1, 1701 ; m. June 
4, 1735, her cousin Oliver Whiting, b. 
March 29, 1691, son of Oliver and Anna 
(Danforth) Whiting, of Billerica. 

VII. Dorcas, b. 1703; m. Dec. 30, 
1725, Rev. Benj. Ruggles, a son of 
Samuel and Martha (Woodbridge) 
Ruggles. He was pastor at Middle- 
boro, now Lakeville, when he was or- 
dained, Nov. 17, 1723. 

VIII. John, born March 11, 1706; 
died before 1718. 



WILL OF MABELL READ-SUMMERS OF WOBURN - 1689-90 

Middlesex Probate June 17, 1690. (See Page 4.) Reade List No. 4 

In ye Name of God, Amen. I, 
Mabell Summers, Relict of Henry 
Sommers, late of Woburn in ye County 
of Midd x in theire Majties Teritory and 
Dominion of New England, being 
through God's goodness of sound under- 
standing and memorie, yet through long 
weakness of body, do rind that my dis- 
solution cannot be far off and though I 
have made a Will or Wills Sometime 
since, yet by reason of my continuance 
longer in this world then I could have 
Expected whereby my necessary pro- 
vision for myself by my order given 
by me to my Son George Read hath 
Expended the considerablest part of 
what Estate I then was possessed of. 
Wherefore, resigning my Soul & body 
into ye hands of my Dear Redeemer, 
my body to be decently enterred at ye 
discretion of my Executor, and as for 
that of temporall Estate that at my de- 
cease shall be in my possession, or due 
unto me from others, I do bestow ye 
whole thereof to my loveing Son George 
Read to him and to his heires forever, 
Excepting five shillings a peice to my 
loveing Sonnes and Daughters then 
living. Further desiring my loveing 



(See Page 4.) 

Daughter in Law, Hannah Read wife 
to my Son George Read that would 
after my decease if liveing give some 
what of my cloathing to my own Daugh- 
ters such and so much as she shall see 
meat, and I do here by Revoke all 
former Wills of mine and this onley to 
be in force, makeing my loveing Sonne 
George Read sole executor of this my 
will who hath for neere this five years, 
shewed his filial care of and for me, 
and doth still say, that dureing my con- 
tinuance in this World according to his 
ability he will provide for me. Where- 
fore Dear Children live in Love and 
Peace together, that ye God of love and 
Peace may be with you. And so I com- 
mitt you into ye hands of our good God 
who hath promised never to leave or 
forsake those that put theire trust in 
him. And in testimonie that this is my 
last Will and testament I do hereunto 
set my hand and seal this 22d of Janu- 
ary, 1689-90. The mark of 

MABELL (O) SUMMERS 

and a Seal 

Signed, Sealed and Delivered in ye 

p r sence of us, William Simmes, Saml. 

Blogett, Senr., Joseph Wright, Senr. 

A. H. R. 



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Single Copies, One Dollar 
Value lies in the Content 



Published by 

THE READE SOCIETY 

For Genealogical Research 




HENRY B. REED, President, 

Auburndaie, Mass. 
HELEN LEAH READ, Vice-President, 

Riverbank Court, Cambridge, Mass. 
CHARLEvS F. READ, Treasurer, 

Old State House, Boston, Mass. 
ALANSON H. REED, Secretary, 

Old State House, Boston, Mass. 

GEORGE S. STEWART, Genealogist, 

Langdon Ave., Watertown, Mass. 

ANNUAL MEETINGS 

Seventeen Annual Meetings of the Reade 
Society have been held in Massachusetts. 

YOU ARE INVITED TO JOIN 

Membership fee, one dollar per year, or 
$10 for a Life membership, exempt from 
dues, should be sent to Charlks F. Read, 
Treasurer, Old State House, Boston, Mass. 

iS^T" Let it ever be remembered that the 
Reade Record is mailed only to members 
whose dues have been paid. The Society is 
limited in its printing by its income. 



FILES OF THE READE RECORD 

Every member should own and bind a 
complete set of these valuable little papers, 
No one can safely write of the family ances- 
tral lines without consulting them. We can 
furnish at present Nos. I, IV, VI, VII. 
VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII. Our stock of 
Nos. II, III and V is exhausted, but we 
intend to reprint them as soon as the funds 
of the Society permit. You aid yourself, and 
assist the Society in printing other numbers 
by buying those we can supply now. Later 
you may not be able to get them. Discount 
n prices made to our members. 



THE SECRETARY SAYS 

That he is pleased that another 

Record is finished and on its way. 

That our members should take note 

of the unusual amount of printed matter 
sent them this year --- 32 pages in Records 
Nos. A and XIII, and a title page for bind- 
ing in book form. 

That the Society had no account 

in the Record of its organization in 1904, 
nor of the first three meetings, in 19114 1905 
and 1906 To supply this deficiency the 
extra Reade Record, No. A, is now printed. 

— That Record No. XIII with its 24 
pages is the largest yet issued. It is inten- 
ded to show by its size, contents and style 
what our members should receive each year, 
or semi-annually if funds permitted. 

— That the Society did not adv nice its 
dues during the World War, nor the price of 
its fine membership certificate. 

That at present it does not seem ad- 
visable to advance the Societydues. 

That with the greatly increased cost 

of paper, composition, presswork, and other 
expenses, it has been impossible to print 
Records of this size, owing to our small 
membership and dues of one dollar per year, 

That it simply printed the best 

Record it could with the funds in hand and 
sent them to our members. 

That we believe our members desire 

the best and are willing to pay for it. 

That therefore, regardless of ex- 
pense, we have printed the Nos. A and 
XIII Records in the belief that our mem- 
bers— life or annual— will be willing to 
contribute a dollar or such other sum as 
they think best, as a free gift, with which to 
pay the increased cost of printing and to 
carry on the work of the Society in issuing 
the next Record, No. XIV. Can be sent in 
postage stamps when desired. 

That he would be pleased to have an 

expression of opinion from the members 
regarding the above statements. 

That it should be remembered that 

the officers of the Society receive no pay for 
their work, but gladly give their time and 
labor, and often their means as well. 

That if members will bring the So- 
ciety to the notice of those unaware of its 
existence, many new members will be se- 
cured and great aid thereby given. 

That regarding Coats of Arms, there 

is no one Read-Reed- Reid (however the 
name is spelled) Coat that covers the entire 
family of that name. And this statement 
applies to all other families, whatever their 
name. A grant of arms is usually made to 
one man only for some service rendered the 
King or the Government, and only the 



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Miss Helen Leah Reed 

Vice-President. Lineage as follows : 
John 1 Reed, Kittery, Me., 1671. 
John'-, Lyme, Conn. (See p. 8.) 
Samuel 3 , b. 1709. Horton, N.S., 1760. 
Duncan 4 , b. 1747. New Horton, N.B., 1783. 
Guilford 5 , b. Feb. 16, 1787. ) See Eatons's 
Granville Bevil 6 , b. 1612. History of King's 
Guilford Shaw' , b. 1837 . ) ^°™^ N ' b ' 
Helen Leah 8 , Graduate Radcliffe College. 

An authoress of note. 



grantee and his heirs are entitled to use it. 
Certainly not others, even of the same sur- 
name. In ignorance of this fact, in the early 
days of our Society it was using a coat to 
which it had no right, which was not ap- 
proved by our members when known. That 
coat was promptly discarded. 

It will be seen by reference to the 

copy of our Charter on the last page, that 
COMMONWKALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS grantsto 

the Reade Society the right to adopt Arms 
for its own use aud that of its members. 

That the Coat ot Arms emblazoned 

on our Certificate of Members! ip was adop- 
ted at the first meeting under the Charter, 
and is issued under the same power as that 
of any other sovereign State or Govern- 
ment.' (See Reade Record Nos. VI., VIII. 
andX.) 

That the picture of "Young Mr. 

Reed aud his big fiddle," as his friends 
jokinglv call it, was taken last August to 
prove, "with the verse, that he has other 
hobbies than genealogy. 

That he hopes publication in the 

Record at their request will not prove to 
our members that he has "brass enough to 
make a copper kettle." 

■ That our readers will gladly note 



reappearing in our columns the name of our 
genealogist, Mr. George S. Stewart 

That Mr. Stewart was recently ap- 
pointed Secretary of the Massachusetts Sons 
of the American Revolution — a high honor. 

That in this Record appear articles 

by a new contributor, Mr. George A. Taylor, 
a reliable genealogist who has spent some 
ten years in England delving among its old 
records, and who is familiar with all the 
sources from which genealogical information 
may be had there. 

That Mr. Taylor takes great interest 

in the genealogies of our Southern States, 
often difficult on account of the Civil War. 



THE PROFESSIONAL GENEALOGIST 

Those who follow genealogy as a business, 
accepting pay for their services, would 
deserve commiseration, were it not that the 
fascination of its pursuit repays its followers 
in a measure for what it lacks in financial 
gain, which generally is not more than a 
meager living, at best. 

What, then, is the fascination? The 
writer takes it to be the same that a detec- 
tive experiences in his business— -the same 
that the puhlic experiences in reading de- 
tective stories — the same that a boy ex- 
periences when he chases a rabbit bobbing 
up and down through a bramble patch ; now 
he sees it, now it is out of sight -but the boy 
is everlastingly bound to get it, cost what it 
will. And so that elusive ancestor which 
the genealogist seeks must be made to 
"show up," whatever the trouble in finding 
him, and the pursuit is interesting and 
' exciting at times. 

The world stands ready to share the 
results. Gladly it will accept the informa- 
tion the genealogist can give. But just 
here is the rub ! The world as a whole does 
not care to pay for the information. It 
seems to thinkit should be ladled out as 
freely as the soup at a charity kitchen. The 
world forgets the genealogist must live, the 
same as other folks. That what lie knows 
is his stock in trade, the same as a doctor, a 
lawyer, or a lecturer. That what he can tell 
in five lines of print may have cost him weeks 
or months of search. 

The public who are able to pay should be 
just and give the small gratuity that is 
usually charged with a free spirit that 
renders it of double value. Yet jour true 
genealogist is the most generous of souls 
when dealing with those who lack the finan- 
cial ability to pay, but wish so ardently "to 
know." Often "he has had experience of 
that himself, and he contributes largely of 
his hard-won knowledge. But the general 
public should not expect something for 
nothing. 



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THE READE RECORD 



THOMAS READ OF BOSTON, 1652- [1654-1659] 



"THE WITNESS" 



Reade List No. 18 



By Alanson H. Reed 



The following depositions in the 
case of Archibald Henderson, in the 
year 1652, are found in the "Massachu- 
setts Archives" (Vol. B 38, Doc. 73-93): 

"The testament of Thomas Read, aged 
about 22 yeares: This Deponent saith that 
Mr. Henderson coming to his chamber and 
calling for a light, presently came the con- 
stable with three men more, and followed 
him, and Goodman Thomas coming forth 
and finding the Constable with his hand on 
Mr. Henderson's shoulder, and two others 
holding faste by the haire of his heade, he 
ofered to be bound for him, forth coming, 
but the Constable not much regarding his 
offer, the other forth with pulled Mr. 
Henderson on the ground ; he springing to 
defend himself, they tooke and dragged 
him out of the Dore, this Deponent gave the 
Constable strike. 

Taken upon oath the second of the sixth 
month, 1652, before me. Willm Hibbins. 

This is a true coppie of the Deposition of 
Thomas Read, compared with the original 
by Edward Rawson, Recorder.*' 

"The testimony of Evan Thomas being 
sworne, he saith: That in the last day of 
the weeke at night as they had newe supt, 
his wife called him & said husband Mr. 
Henderson is come in and the constable 
after him, pray you come quickly; with 
that he tooke a candle and went and found 
Mr. Henderson standing upright in the 
hall and goodman Bigfield gribing him fast 
by one shoulder, and George Way and 
George Pearse holding him by the haire 
of the heade; then saith this deponent 
what is the matter gentlemen? saith good- 
man Bigfield this man is Drunke ; why saith 
this Deponent he hath neither eat nor 
dranke in my house today — but if you please 
I wilbe his securety and see him forth com- 
ing in tyme fitting ; but he doth not remem- 
ber that goodman Bigfield gave him any 
answer ; then he took hold of Mr. Hender- 
son and said, pray you leave him to me and 
I will rule him well enough; with that 



goodman Bigfield lett goe his hould and the 
other two men haveing hold of his haire 
drew him to the ground, upon which Mr. 
Henderson rose upp enraged and strucke 
the men & the rest near him ; then said the 
Constable carry him away. Mr. Henderson 
strove with them and they dragged him 
foath of the house, both the said men and 
the constable by his haire as farr as the 
sign post and scuffling they fell down and 
some tymes Mr. Henderson was under the 
men that strove with him ; then this 
Depnt haveing assisted, the Constable 
desired him again to assist him ; saith this 
deponant to him I cannot assist you for I 
am afraid the man will die, and I know not 
at whose hands his blood will be required; 
then they dragged him as far as the Pumpe, 
and he lay as a dead man; saith this depo- 
nent I pray you deale not hardly with him, 
to dragg like a dogge but let him be carried ; 
there is help enough; and this deponent 
took one legge to help carry him but soe 
many as were sufficient laid hold of him 
beside, and let him goe, and soe they car- 
ried him to prisson and this deponent fol- 
lowed immediately after him, and there they 
left him lying in the prisson as a dead man. 

Taken upon oath the second of the sixt 
monthe, 1652, before me, Willm Hibbins. 

This is a true coppie of the Disposition of 
Evan Thomas, compart d with the original 
by Edward Rawson, Recorder." 

"George Munings testifieth concerning 
Mr. Henderson that ye constable Gooduian 
Bigfield with others broughtMr. Henderson 
to the prison where he was locked up untill 
the morning being in the common prison 
& being at that tyme in bed. In the morn- 
ing I going in found him quaking with 
colde his waistcoate torn with one sleeve off 
his shirt torn to the waste his body in some 
pts naked being beaten in some partes of 
his body ... so that I being greeved to see 
him such a condition tooke him into my 
house," etc. 

taken upon oath the 22d 8th m. 1652 by 
Increase Nowell. 



THE READE RECORD 



IS 



COMMENT. 

Without doubt all the town of Boston was 
agog with talk and excitement the next 
morning when the news of the encounter 
spread about. Not a newspaper then ex- 
isted, nor, in fact, until fifty years later. 
"Broadsides," or handbills, as called now, 
were the means of public announcements, 
aside from the town crier. So perhaps we 
may imagine that on this morning in Aug- 
ust, 1652, some irreverent son of Belial, 
compositor in a printing office, who had 
not great fear of the authorities, had boys 
upon the streets and in the market place 
and in the inns, crying: 

ARCHIE HENDERSON SOUSED 

Landed In ye Hoosegow alter a Desper- 
ate Struggle.-- GoDdnan Blgllelil. ve 
Bucko Cop, Proves Himself a Brute. 
— Ye Reade Record Demands that 
tie be Fired from ye Force. 
Human nature in essence is ever the same 
despite its many forms, aud doubtless the 
eager quest for details of the happening was 
the same as now in similar cases. The 
wording of the broadside above may not be 
correct or even authentic, for it is a long 
time since then, and the Secretary may 
have dreamed it. 

Concerning Thomas Rkad, "the Witness," 
little is known except what can be gleaned 
from the three depositions above and others 
in the same case, unless we add to these the 
scant entries below and the information 
given in the account of Thomas Read "of 
the Inventory" given in another column 
(see page 18), for the writer is convinced 
that they are identically the same man. 

These depositions relate only to Mr. Archi- 
bald Henderson and an affray in which some 
prominent townsmen of the then little town 
of Boston had part, yet as a realistic picture 
of life in the section along the docks, and 
one in which Thomas Read was a participant 
and witness, and which doubtless was a 
subject of gossip to the entire town, they 
seem worth a place in our Record. 

Evan Thomas, at whose house the dis- 
turbance occurred, was a "vintner,'" — one 
of those persons "licensed to keep inns and 
cook shops, to draw beer, and retail strong 



water," and in this class also was William 
Hudson, Jr., who had so much to do with 
the affairs of Thomas Read "of the Inven- 
tory" and who owned the Castle Tavern, cor- 
ner of the present Washington and Elm Sts. 
The house or inn of Evan Thomas was just 
around the corner on Hanover Street. Not 
far away, at the corner of the present North 
and Richmond Streets, was the Red Lyon 
Inn, kept hy Nicholas Upsall. All of these 
had soldiers billeted upon them as is evi- 
denced by the following. (Supreme Court 
Files No. 210.) Boston —The acct. of the 
Town, his debts, 1654-1655: 

* * * 

To so much pd. Evan Thomas, Nich. 
Upsall, Wm. Hudson and Wm. 
Blanton, for Billeting Soldiers. . .07.15 

* » ♦ 

A true Copy from the Book of accounts 
for the Town of Boston. 
Attest : Samuel Gkrrish, Town Clerk. 

This suggests that possibly Thomas Read 
may have been one of these soldiers, as he 
evidently was an inmate of Evan Thomas' 
house or inn. 

The next item of information comes in 
the inventory of the estate of Robert Sharp, 
19: 11 [Dec] 1654, (Sufi. Co. Prob. Vol. 1, 
p. 195.) 

"Acct. of Debts of Robert Sharp, to 
Mary Read for hir service. .[2"J1.08.00 

This Mary Read we take to be the same 
as that mentioned in the Boston Records as 
the wife and later the widow of Thomas of 
the Inventory (see pp. 18-19). From this we 
infer that Thomas, "the witness" above, 
then only 22 years of age, had married in 
1654; had established relations with William 
Hudson, Jr., and that later his wife and chil- 
dren went under Hudson's guardianship. 

There seems to be no definite information 
concerning the occupation of Thomas Read, 
nor note of any doings of his in the Boston 
Town Records, which lends support to the 
surmise that he may have been a soldier. 

As to the widow Mary Read, from the 
unusual supply of household utensils in the 
Inventory, we might imagine that she kept 
a boarding house in the place rented by 
Hudson from Mr. Hanuaford. 

The reader can make his own choice in 
all these matters. 



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THE READE KECORD 




TO MY 'CELLO 



Come sit upon my lap, my 'cello, 
Whilst thee and I commune alone. 
Thou art a jealous mistress, love, 
And hard thy given tasks indeed, 
Since in thy service entered I. 

What now! Across thy strings I draw 

My bow; as if in torture set 

Thou dost complain and groan and grumble. 

As one possessed of spirits wild, 

And false thy notes fall on my ear. 

Ah, thou jade ! Thus thinkest thou ? 
My bow insistent — rough and rude? 
Now gently it caresses thee ; 
So murmur, sigh, or softly sing, 
As lovers do, with ardent tongue. 



Well done! And now a dainty dance, 
As when the elves and fairies sport 
In sylvan moonlit glades, unseen, 
Or noble lords and ladies proud 
Do tread the stately menuet. 

Oh, then, in song exultant soar, 
To reach the very gates of Heaven 
And bid St. Peter ope his blinking eyes, 
Whilst angels cluster at the port 
And still their harps in sweet surprise. 

Hark ! Hark ! Again the God of War 

Loud calls old earth to battles dire ! 

Sound all your strings — your grandest strains, 

For tramping feet that march today 

In Freedom's name, with Freedom's flag. 



Right good! I love thee still, sweetheart, 
Thou comely wench, despite my chains. 



A. H. REED 



THE READE RECORD 



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THE READ NAME 

By G. A. Taylor 



British authorities, in discussing the 
origin of the surname Read, under its 
various spellings, give several explana- 
tions, the most common of which seems 
to be that our Reeds - Reids - Reads 
are forms of the old " rede " or red. 

In early feudal records are found 
William le Red (Mini. Gildhall Lon- 
donsiefisei ), Isabel le Red, Hamo le Red, 
Amabilla la Rede (in the Hundred 
Molls); Roger le Rede (Calmd. Rotul- 
orum Fat. Lundinensij: and Adam le 
Rede (Rolls of Fail lament). Guppy 
gives Reade as a rare form, originally 
occurring in Cheshire and Berkshire- 
Bardsley gives Read, Reade. Reed, 
Reid as a nickname, " the red," a so- 
briquet given on account of the ruddy 
face or the sanguine red complexion of 
the hair. 

In the " Hunched Rolls," date 1273, 
we find in County Norfolk, Goodwin le 
Rtde; in Herefordshire, Roger le Rede; 
and in Somersetshire, first year Edward 
Ill's reign, 1272, according to Kirby's 
"Quest," - William Red and Robert le 
Rede. The Testa de Neville gives 
Robert le Rede in County Surrey, time 
1216-1272, Henry III to Edward 1, and 
about the same period or a little later ac- 
coiding to Fines Roll,a"Martin le Rede 
et Jacoba uxor ejus." However 1 think 
that it is almost impossible at this late 
date to say definitely which of these 
may be danved not from the complex- 
ion but from the meaning '"counsellor" 
as noted in a later part of this article. 

Feudal arms from Heraldic Rolls, 
12Q8-1418, give us, perhaps, the earliest 
authorized arms for any of the name 
with any certainty. They were borne 
by a Suffolk County knight named Rede 
in the Roll of Henry Vl's time (1422- 
1461) and were "azure, three pheasants 
( 2 and 1 ) or.' —Arundel Roll. 

Lower repeats about the same thing 
as Bardsley and quotes Chaucer : 

" Flowers both white and rede,' 1 
and Sir John Maundeville describing 
the Red Sea, says : 



That see is not more reed than 
another see; but in some places thereof 
is the gravelle reed; and therefore men 
clepen it the Rede Sea." 

Anderson, a Scottish authority gives 
the spelling Reid as derived from the 
Gaelic word Ruadh, meaning red. 

Barber gives Read as a place name 
in Yorkshire and Reed as such in the 
County of Suffolk. 

Weekley, adds to this by giving this 
name as a derivative from such growths 
as Broom, Reed, Gorse, Furze, Fern, 
etc., and also speaking of Counsel] 
says, 'we may compare Read and Reed 
among the many origins of which must 
be included Rede - counsel. 

"Reed, counsel!, considium"(/Vww//. 
Parv. ) Perhaps the most interesting 
origin given is that by Prof. HA. Long 
of Glasgow. " Reid, Read, Rattee. 
Radetsky (marshal and Rato); counsel- 
lors all, men who render the ratio - 
reason for what they think, allied to 
Reichs-rath." 

"Conrad (ken - to know, and rad - 
counsel) knowing counsellor- Eubulus 

- good counsellor." 

"Tancred (thank rede) one whose 
counsel is received with thanks." 

"Ethelred - noble counsellor." 

"Rhadegund - warlike counsellor, who 
•advises to fight." 

"Alfred - who counsels like an elf or 
fairy. Elf - white, connected with Albis 

- Banshee from bain - white. Alfred 
takes the form of Alva." 

Arthur gives Reed and Read from 
"the Saxon Rede- advice, counsel, help 
or from the fenny plant, a reed." 

So, friends, take your choice. 

Bot. — " Your name, honest gentle- 
man ? 

Feas. — " Peaseblossom." 

Bot. — " I pray you, commend me to 
Mistress Squash, your mother, and to 
Master Peasecod, your father." 

— Shakespeares' Mid. Ntght's Dream. 



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THE READE RECORD 



THOMAS READ OF BOSTON, [1652]-- 1656- 1659 

Inventory, Registry Probates, Suffolk Co., Mass. 
By Alanson H. Reed 

(Reade List, No. 21) 



An Inventory of the Goods and 
Chattels of Thomas Read, Lately 
Deceased: 

Imprimis 9 pewter Plattrs, 3 Basons. 
4 Plates, 6 porringers, 1 Candlesticke, 2 
Cassers, 2 drinking Cupps & a pinte 
pott, one Salt Cellar, 2 wine Cupps, one 

qrt. pott, 1 Chamber pott 003.06.06 

It. 2 Brasse Kettles, 3 brasse skil- 
letts, one brasse pott, one Chafindi-.li, 
a morter & pestele S: Candlesticke, in 

all 004.00.00 

It. One Iron Kettle, one Iron pott, 
with two pairs of potthooks & a paire 
of Andirons, one spit, 2 paire of tongs, 
one fyre shovell, one tramell, one ten- 
der, a frying pan, one smoothing Iron, 

in all .... . 002.03.06 

It. Tinnen Ware, one Cullender, one 
Lampe. one pinte pott, 2 pudding pans, 

one dripping pans, in all OOli. 08.00 

It. Earthen ware, 3 basons, one milke 
pan, 5 disht-s. 1 porringrs, one drink- 
ing pott, a Cupp & _' Salts, V due broad 

Earthen Plate, in all 00.10.00 

It. Hollow ware, one paile, one pint 
ter, one laddie, one dish, one voyder 

& onebeere Rundlet 000.07.00 

2doz. of trenchers .02.00 

It. Seven chaires & a smale table, in 

all 000.18.00 

It. Bedstead, a paire of Curtained & 
valence, one Kugg, two white blanketts, 
one feather bed, boulster and pillow, in 

all 013.05.00 

It. Six paire of sheets 008.06.00 

It. Two diap table Clothes & two 

Holland Table Clothes 001.18.00 

It. Two doz of Linnen napkins. 002. H4.00 
It. A pcell of Child bed Linnen and 

some odd towells 003.03.00 

It. Two paire of pillowbers 002.10.00 

more p of Pillowbers -001 .03.00 

It. A piece of Tuffted Holland & a 

ffian's shift 000 08.00 

It One Cubbard Cloth, 5 s, 4 Quisb- 

ens, 25 s. in all 001.10.00 

It. 3 Glasses & a piece of Carpiting, 
12 s, & a Chimney Cloth, 3 s, in all. 000.15. 00 

It. By fyre wood 000.15.00 

It. A Chest of drawers & a wainscott 
Chest 003.05.00 



It. One Sword & belt 000.10.00 

It. A Bed & Coverlid 002.00,00 

It. One Cradle, one meale troffe. 000. 12.00 
It. One wheele, 4 s, 3 jovne stooles, 

7s 6 d '- 000.11.06 

It. one Cloake, a piece of Tamev & a 

Remnant of Cloth 002.15.00 

It. two Wicker Basketts & two boxes 

000.05.00 

057.11.00 

Apprized by us whose names are under- 
written : Will Cotton, Will English, 
John Viai.l. 

25:9 mo.: [Nov.] 59. William Hudson 
deposed before ye Court yt this is a true 
Inventory of Thomas Rkad'S Estate, 



THOS. READ'S LIST OF DKBTS 

The Vccompt of Thomas Read that 
Lately Deceased: 

224. Impris upon Reconing the 1: 11 
57 [1st. Jan. 1657, as the new year 
then began in March] 002.08.01 

8: 12: 57. Silver Lent since wee Re- 
coiled 000.08.00 

Mrch. 1, 1658. To Sargt. Cotton for 

jrou 001.08.00 

ditto 17 more to Nath. Renolds for vou 
15 s 06 d Aprill 3, 58, & exp 16 s 
4 d 001.12.10 

* * * 

ditto 18 more %. a Coard of Wood, 3 s 

6 d, Exp. 9 d. 000.04.03 

* * * 

August 17. more exp, 5 s 11 d, one 

Coard of wood, 7 s 6 d 000.10.05 

Sept. 2. Silver, 1 s, Exp. 1 s 5 d 
000.02.05 

* * * 

more by Timothy Prate . .000.09.08 

For House Rent to Mr. H. 006.00.00 

It. one Coard of wood at twise. .000.07.06 

more in the other books 001.06.00 

A vear and 10 moneths Dyat for herself 

' and Child 025.00.00 

It. two Coard of wood 000.15.00 

more pav'd to Mr. Hanniford for rent 

.... 007.00.00 

(Total) 052.03.05 



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This is a true Coppie taken out of Lieut. 
Hudson's Books & owned bv me. 

MARY READE. 

Witness \ John Fernicide 
w uness ( John vial] 

Left. Will Hudson deposed before the 
the Court 26: 9 [26 Nov.] 1659, that this pap. 
is a true Aceorupt of Thomas Read's Debt 
as it stands in his booke with which it hath 
been compared, that it hath been compared, 
that it is a true Accompt wch the Court al- 
lowed of. 

COMMENT 

Lieutenant William Hudson, Jr., was 
evidently the administrator of Thomas 
Read's estate, but no other papers save 
this Inventor}- and List of Debts are now to 
be found in the Suffolk County court files. 
Hudson was born about 1613, as he deposed 
25th Jan., 1675, that he was about 62 years 
of age (Suff. Court Files), made freeman 
in 1640, a lieutenant in 1654, captain in 1661, 
and died in 1681. He had a house, garden 
and brewhouse, known as Castle Tavkrn, 
located on Conduit St., facing South on the 
Town Dock, on the corner of what is now 
Washington and Elm Sts. |See Savage 
Gen. Diet, and Memorial Hist. Boston. 
Map pp. XIV and XXIII, vol. II.] 

William Hudson undoubtedly was a firm 
friend to Thomas Read, as is shown by 
his becoming security on his bond. Little 
concerning Read is known, except from this 
Inventory and List of Debtsand a few entries 
on the Boston Town and Church Records. 
But that he was of some social standing 
is shown by the sword and belt noted in the 
inventory, for only a "gentleman" or man 
of character and influence in those days 
carried side arms. 

The following entry in the Boston Town 
Records (Com. Rep., Vol. 2, p. 150) affords 
this information concerning him : 

31: 1: 1656 [31st day of March, 1656] 
.... Tho: Reade is admitted an inhabi- 
tant, Lieut. William Hudson being 
bound in a bond of twenty pounds to 
secure the town from charge. 

Witness my hand." 

(No signature attached.) 

The writer is convinced that he was iden- 
tical with that Thomas Read, "the witness" 
in 1652, of whom an account is given in 
another column. 



Thus we should expect to find the record 
of his marriage, and the births and baptisms 
of his children on the Boston Town and City 
Records. But no record of' marriage is 
found, and we only know the name of his 
wife, Mary, from the "List of Debts" and 
the following entries in the Boston Town 
Records (Com. Rep., Vol. 9) : 

Elizabeth, of Thomas and Mary Reade, 

born 18 April, 1656. 

Elizabeth, of Thomas and Mary Reade, 
(died) March 17, 1658. 

Thomas, of Thomas and Mary Reade, 
deceased the 11th of May, 1661. 

But there is one curious conclusion that 
may be drawn from the statements in the 
"List of Debts — "Imprimis, Upon our 
Reconing the 1: 11 mo. [16 Jan.] 57" ; the 
two entries of house rent to Mr. Hauniford, 
one for £i> and the other for £l--£\5 ; the 
entries for various "Coardes" of wood ; and 
the additional entry of "a yeare & 10 
moneths Dyat for herself e & childe" (evi- 
dently the little son Thomas). These all 
show that Mary Reade, living in a house 
rented of Mr. Hannaford, was being sup- 
ported by Lieut. Hudson. We take it that 
this was in the interval between the "Recon- 
ing," Jan. 16, 1657, and the filing of the List 
of Debts and Inventory, Nov., 1659. The 
inference is that Thomas Read, the hus- 
band, was away from home during this 
time, perhaps on some long military expe- 
dition or voyage at sea, and by arrangement 
Lieut. Hudson was to care for his family in 
his absence, and that Read died abroad. 

Only when the certainty of this event 
came to be known at home was the settle- 
ment of his affairs undertaken. It was 
customary upon the decease of anyone to 
make an inventory of their property at once, 
and sometimes it was filed even before the 
will. Now we do not know the exact date 
of Thomas Read's death, but from the 
statement that he was "lately deceased" 
probably it was not long before the filing of 
the inventory. A tragedy evidently lies 
behind these meager entries. 

If our surmise is correct it will be seen 
his daughter Elizabeth died during his ab- 
sence, and after his own death soon came 
{See Fiige 22) 



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THE READE RECORD 



JOHN RUT 



AND THE FIRST LETTER WRITTEN IN ENGLISH FROM 
AMERICA TO ENGLAND 



With the myriads of letters that daily 
pass from America to Europe, written 
in the English language, it is of interest 
to note that the year 1927 will be the 
four hundredth anniversary of the first 
of such. 

On John Cabot's return in 1497 from 
his first voyage, his Bristol partners 
said, 'They can bring so many fish that 
this Kingdom will have no more busi- 
ness with Iceland." Cabot sailed again 
for the New World in 1498, to be fol- 
lowed in 1501, 1503, 1504, and L505 
by other expeditions, undoubtedly all 
for the purpose of procuring codfish. 

While it is a controversial matin, 
there is good evidence for the belie! 
that Sebastion Cabot and Sir Thomas 
Pert made an extended exploration oi 
the American seaboard in 1508, with 
the assistance and under the a-gis of 
the Crown of England. 

In 1521 an expedition was planned 
by Henry VIII and Wolsey, but there 
is no word of its ever having sailed. 

Pope Alexander VI divided the New 
World between Spain and Portugal, lint 
it does not appear that Henry VIII 
paid any heed to this division. Henry 



undoubtedly considered that the coun- 
tries discovered by Cabot properly be- 
longed to him. We learn that in 1525 
he endeavored to secure the services of 
Centurini to conduct an exploratory 
expedition. Lord Edmund Howard, 
about the same time petitioned Wolsley 
to employ him upon a similar enterprise. 
In 1527 he sent out John Rut, a naval 
officer, in the"Mary Guilford," a King's 
ship. Rut's letter, written to Henry 
VIII from the harbor of St. John's, 
Newfoundland, is the first written news 
from the New World in the English 
language. In it he describes his voy- 
age "to the uttermost of his power," 
and refers to instructions given him at 
his departure to seek other islands. It 
would thus appear that this was not a 
fishing voyage, but had some other 
purpose, perhaps exploratory, perhaps 
political. 

There were several other English 
vessels upon the coast the same year, 
one.of which conveyed Rut's letter to 
England, but Hakluyt was unable to 
obtain any particulars regarding them, 
to his great annoyance. 

G. A. TAYI.i JR. 



THE READE LIST, 1630-1700 



Investigation concerning the immigrants 
"I the following numbers on the list has 
afforded little information, as here not til: 

No. 5. William, passenger in the Ex- 
pectation, 1635, from London to t la- 
Isle of Providence, West Indies. The 
records in this case have not been at 
hand to determine what became of him. 

No. 9. Matthew, servant of Charles Gott, 
Salem, 1638. Only mention yet found. 

No. 11. Zachary, landowner in Weymouth, 
Mass., 16-13-4. This should be Zachai j 
Rhodes, not Reade. 

No. 12. Benjamin, of Duxbury, Mass. 
Mentioned in a list of those able to bear 
arms, in 1643. Plymouth Colony Rec- 
ords. Only mention yet found. 



No. 15. Zachens, of Boston, 1650. Mar- 
iner on the Unicorn, Capt. Isaac Alding- 
ton. Probably a transient. 

No. 17. John, of New London, Conn. 
Forfeited his grant. Not identified with 
any other John in the Colonies. 

No. 32. Thomas, of Marblehead, Mass. 
See History of Marblehead. A mistake. 
Should be "Thomas Dodd. 

No. 33. "Michel" was a soldier in the 
King Philip War, 1771 (Bodge, p. 422). 
Seems to be some confusion of names. 
Doubtful of its being a Read name. 

An examination of the Reade Record, 
Nos. I to XIII, will show that most of the 
other numbers on the list have been com- 
mented upon. Those still remaining will 
be taken up later. a. u. r. 



MEMBERSHIP ROLLS 



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HONORARY 

Read, Com. Albert C. Washington, D. C. 

Read, Arthuh W. Leicester, Ens. 

Reads, Aleyn L. Liverpool, Eng. 

•Reed, Reuben L. Late of So. Acton, Mass. 

LIFE 

Andrews, Mas. Ella Reed New York. N. T. 
Rinforp, Mrs. Marcia Reed Roxbury, Me. 
I',,,, i ■ i c i r Mrs. Ella R. Hartford, Conn. 

Hodges, Miss Mart A. Foxhoro, Mass. 

Larkin, Mrs. Frances II. Buffalo, N. Y. 

Lefferts. Marshall C. New York. N. Y 

M irden, Mrs. Harriet A. R. The Dalles, Or. 
McNicol, Mrs. Bernice E. R. 

Jewett Citv, Conn. 
Morse. Willard S. New York. N. Y. 

Morss. Mas. Ethel R Boston 

Morton. Mrs Florence E. R. Worcester 

Read, Charles F. Boston 

Read, Miss Clara A. New Bedford, Mass. 

Read. Edmund S. Washington, TV C 

Read. Miss Ella H. New Bedford, Mass. 

Read. Franklin F.. 2nd Pittsfielfl, Mass. 

Reap. George B. Bloomington, Ills. 

Read, George \V. Taunton. Mass. 

Read, James A. Arlington, N. J. 

Read, Joseph Summerside, 1'. E. 1. 

Read, Joseph E. Erie, B. C 

Read. J. Padlding Newark, N. J. 

•Kead, Dr. Joshua \V. Late of Newark. N. J. 
Read, Mrs Juliet E. Des Moines, Iowa 

Reap. .Miss Margaret II. -Now York, N. Y. 

Read, Newbi i;v F. New York, N. Y. 

Reap, Samuel II. Now Haven, Conn. 

•Read, .Miss Sarah E. Late of Boston 

•Read, William A. Late of Now York. N. Y. 
Reade, Miss Christia M. Lombard, ills. 

•Reads, Edgar S. Late of Ottawa, Can. 

Reade, Joseph F. Now York. N. v. 

•Reads, Gen. Philip Late of Boston 

Reep, Ai.a.nson II. Wellesley Hills, Mass. 

Keep. Alanson L. Biltmore, N. C 

Reep, Charles \V. Boston 

Reep, Edgab Worcester, Mass. 

Reep, Miss Ellen A. New Haven, Conn. 

Reep. I.t. Com. George II. (it. Barrington 
Reed, Horatio M. New York. N. Y. 

•Reep, Rev. James Late of Boston 

Kilo. Da. James H. Chelsea, Mass. 

Keep, James R. Pasadena, Calif. 

Reed, John E. Erie, l'a. 

Reed, John S. Boston 

Keep, Marion B. Lowell, Mass. 

Keep, Miss Mahy S. Boise, Idaho 

Reep, Robert C. Boston 

Keep, Miss Temperance P. 

Pelham Manor. N. Y. 
•Reep, William Ii. Late of Now York, N. Y. 
Reep, William E. New York, N. Y. 

Keep, int. William E. Washingtonville, N. Y. 
Reed, William T. Boston 

Robinson, Mrs. Grace K. Now York, N. Y. 

Sargent, Allan C. Graniteville, Mass. 

Sergel, Charles H. Chicago, Ills. 

Storey, Hampton L. Altadena, Calif. 

Warren, Mrs. Grace R. Cambridge, Mass. 
Waterman, Mrs. Lewis A. Providence, R. I. 
Wells, Wellington Boston 

Williams, Rt. Key. G. Mott Annapolis, Mil. 

"Deceased 

ANNUAL. 

Adams. Miss Sarah K. Brighton, Mass. 

Akin, Mrs. Emma R. New York, N. Y. 

Alley, John S. Pelham. N. Y. 

Atwood, Joshua Boston 

Bamford, Mrs. Eleanor M. Wilkes -Barre, Pa. 
Bankhage, Mrs. Alice D. Danville, Ills. 

I'.ankhage, Hilman R. Danville. Ills. 

Bishop, Mrs Emma A. Cadillac, Mich. 

Blackmer, Mrs. Catherine 

Tufts College, Mass. 
Blanchard, John S. C. So. Weymouth. Mass. 
Blanchard, Miss Mary L. So. Weymouth, Mass. 
Blanchard, Miss Susanna R. So. Weymouth 



Brightman, Miss Eva St. C. Fall River 

Bbummer, Mrs. Mary A. C. Lisbon, N. II. 

Burns. Harry L. Eveleth, Minn. 

Carson, Mas. Rachel F. Knoxville, Tenn. 

Champion, William J. Boston 

Clarke. Arthur F. Brookllne, Mass. 

Clarke, Miss Helen G. Brookline, Mass. 

Cooper. Mrs Caroline S. Minneapolis, Minn. 
Copeland, Miss Maria A. Round Hill. Va. 

Corry, Charles R. Washington, D. C. 

crane. Joshua E. N. Bridgewater, Vlass. 

Cross. Mrs. John A. Providence, R. I. 

Cross, Rev. Roselle T. Twinsburg, Ohio 

Deane. Miss Bertha L. Taunton, Mass. 

Dodd, Rev. Henry M. Clinton, N. Y. 

Durgin, Ha. E. II. Cupertino, Calif. 

Elwell, .Mrs. Cynthia R. s.> Weymouth 

Estey. Mrs. Lali.a R. Denver, Colo. 

Fare, Mrs. Virginia Reed Los Angeles, Calif. 
Field, J. Howard Brockton, Mass. 

Fletcher, Miss Grace G. Boston 

Fletcher, Harry G. West Somerviile, Mass. 
Foote, Mrs. Emma I".. Scranton, Pa. 

Geer, Miss Nettie R. New London, Conn. 

Gipson, Mrs. Jeanette R. Crawfordsville, Ind. 
Hallett, Frank T. New York, N. Y'. 

Hallett, Miss Sarah N. Providence, K. I. 
Harman. .Mas. Elizabeth R.Jacksonville, Fla. 
Jackson. .Mas. Mary A. R. East Orange, N .1 
Johnson, Alfred Brookline Mass. 

Kelly, George R. Boston 

Kern, Mrs. Catherine R. Washington, 1' i 
Kimball, Miss Helen F. Brookline. Mass. 

Kneei.anp. Benjamin C. R. Woburn, 
Levings, Mas. Elizabeth R. 

Rockville Centre, N. Y. 
Lewis, James E. Taunton. Mass. 

Lumpkin, Mas. Amelia F. Memphis, Tenn. 
Marshall, Miss Adaline T. York Village, Me. 
Mason. Mas. Elizabeth V. Atlanta, Ga. 

Mead, Mas Rose W. lira. tin-, l'a. 

Merrow, Mrs. Rena M. Maiden, Mass. 

Morris, Mtts. Mary P. Hartford, Conn. 

Norton, .Mas. Myrtle P. West Somerviile 

Parsons, Mrs. Mary A. R. Avon Lake, Ohio 
Peckham, Mrs. Eleanor G. S. 

Colorado Springs 
I'ettee, .Mas. Geokgiana E. R. Brookline 

I'RESCOTT, Miss Clara F. Lawrence. Mass. 

Preston, .Mas. Antoinette R. Norwich, Conn 
Propty, Mrs. Mary A. Boston 

Raymond, Daniel V. New York, N, Y. 

Reap, Andrew J. Boston 

Read, Mrs Bertha C. F. Fall River. Mass 
Read, Charles A. Manchester, Mass, 

Read. Clarence F. Wellsville, N. Y. 

Read, Miss Edith B. Brookline, Mass. 

Read, Edward M. St. Louis, Mo. 

Read, Elbert a. Shenandoah, Iowa 

Read, Ernest C. Fall River, Mass. 

Read, George R. New York. N. Y. 

Read, Gen George w. 

Fort Benjamin Harrison. Ind. 
Read, Harold C. Wellesley Hills. Jlass 

Heap, Henry C, Jr. Cambridge, Mass. 

Read, Capt. Hernando M. Lexington, Ky. 

Read. Mas. Jessie B. Portland, Or. 

Read, .1 Philip Jacksonville, Fla 

Read, .Miss Margaret Port Elgin. N. Y. 

Read, Miss Mary E. Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Read, Melbourne S. Hamilton, N Y 

Read, Rev, JValteh George Brighton. .Mass 
Reade, I'.. Clinton St. John. N. B. 

Reads, >Josiah T. Lombard, Ills. 

Reade. Vincent St. P. Charlestown, .Mass 
Keed, Albert A. Boulder, Colo. 

Reed, Albert A. Winchester. Mass. 

Keed. Albert M. Albany, N. Y. 

Reed, Alice F. Biltmore, N. C. 

Keed, Alonzo B. Boston 

Keed, Miss Anna W. Cambridge, Mass. 

Reed, Charles Dana Des Moines, Iowa 

Reed. Charles F. Somerviile, Mass. 

Reed. Charles II. Maplewood, N. .1. 

Reed, Charles K. Worcester, Mass. 

Reed, Chester N. West Newton. Mass. 

Reep, Clarence D. Whitman. Mass. 

Reep. Edward D. Buffalo, N. Y. 

Reed. Edward M. Wellesley Hills. Mass. 

Reed, Edward T. Albany. N. Y. 



22 



THE READE RECORD 



Keed, 
Reed, 
Eeed, 
Reed, 
Reed, 

K i : D, 

Keek, 
Reed, 
Reed, 
Reed, 
Reed, 
Reed, 
Rebd, 
Reed, 
Reed, 

Reed, 

Reed, 
Hef.ii. 
Reed, 
Reed, 
Reed, 
Reed, 
Reed, 
Reed, 
Reed, 
Reed, 
Reed, 
Reed, 
Reed, 
Reed, 



Mits. Ella C. 
Mrs. Emily I'. 
Ekvin E. 

EOGENE W. 

Dk. Floyd O. 
Francis B. 
Frane J. 
Fred I.. 

': A. 

George W. 
Rei . George ii. 
George M. 
Gi orge W. 

II IROLD F. 
I I IRRY L. 

Miss Helen Le. 
Henri B. 
John ii. 
John W.. Jr. 
John W ::,! 
Miss Julia I. 
■I Russell 
-Miss Lillian 
Miss Mae I. 
Mrs. Margaret 
Mi s Maby D., 
Montgomery 
Hon. Morris A. 
Philip L. 

If. VI. I'll Ii. 

Richard H. 
Samuel B. 



Boise. Idaho 

Boston 

Monticello, Iowa 

No, Brookfleld, Mass. 

Yonkers, N. v. 

East Wiviiioillll. Mass. 

New York, N. v. 

Cohasset, Mass. 

Montpelier, Vt. 

Roanoke. Va. 

C :ord, X. II. 

Keene, X. H. 

Roanoke, Va. 

Brookline, Mass. 

Auburn-, N. V. 

h Cambridge, Mass. 

Boston 

Am. 'iiia. No. Dak. 

Benton Harbor, Mich. 

Benton Harbor, Mich. 

Cleveland, Ohio 

!■ n 

Washington, D. <'. 

Columbus, Ohio 

i. Boston 

White Plains. N. V. 

Boston 

St. Joseph, Mo. 

Dedham, Mass. 

Manchester, \ n 

New York, N v 

Boston 



Reed 
Reed 
Reed, 
Reed 

REI I'. 

Reed, William x I 



Rev. Setii Flint, Mich. 

Hon. Warren a. Brockton, Mjs~ 

Thomas .1 Canandaigua, X Y 

Prop. William Howell Roxbury, Mass. 
Miis Julia I.. A. So. Weymouth. Mass 
New York, X. Y 



Reed, William R. New 

Reid. Miss m. Christine 
Reid, Rob ie L. 
Reid, Rouert X. 
Reed, Wili i vm E. 

RlDEOUT, Mils. FRANCES R. 
ROB] (JSpN, Mils Hi ORG] r, \ 



Root, Mrs. i i at in: ]•:. 
Russell, Miss ii, Piuscilla 
Ri sseli . Mrs. Loi isa s. 
SHERWIN, Miis, Anna I:. 

Simpson, Rev. Henry J. 

SOPER, Mils Em ma I' 
Stevens. Mrs, SARA K. 
Stewart, George s. 
s '"» li i , Mrs. i'ii ikles n 
Taylor, George a. 
Taylor, Raymond 
Ti tile. Mux. Helen R. 
Washburn, Mils. Grace B. 

W HERMAN, MRS .Iessie 

Watres, Mils Eppie J. 
Well. Miis ELLEN R 
Willeits, Miis. [RENE 1 

Wright, Hon. Ru bi i: 



ii 



Brunswick, X. J. 

New York, X. Y. 

Vancouver, B. *'. 

Springfield, Mass. 

New Y"ik. X. \\ 

Sausalito, Calif. 

F. 

Bloomington, Ills. 

Burlington, Vt. 

Arlington, Muss. 

Arlington, Mass. 

Atlantic, Mas-;. 

Pontiac, Mich. 

Charlestown, x. 11 

Portland, Me. 

Watertown, Mass. 

Lowell, Mass. 

Boston, Mass. 

Weston, Yi. 

Syracuse, X. Y. 

Brookline, .Mass. 

Los Angeles, Calif. 

Scranton, Pa. 

Scituate, Mass 

Chicago, Ills. 

Baltimore, Mil. 



THOMAS READ OF BOSTON 

{Concluded from Page /o) 

that of his little son Thomas, thus extin- 
guishing- all chance of descendants being 
left to bear their name to posterity in the 
new world. 

THUMAS AND MARY MATsuN 

The widow, Marv, soon after Read's de- 
cease in 1659, married again as will be seen 
by this entry on the Boston Town Record : 
1660. Thomas Matson and Marv 
Read, widow, were married 14th Aug- 
ust, by Mr. Thomas Danforth. 
According to the records of the First 
Church, this Thomas- Matson (son of 
Thomas 1 ) was bapt. 27 d ly 8 mo. [Septem- 
ber] 1633, and thus at the time of his mar- 
riage to Widow Mary Read, was about 28 
years of age. As a contemporary of Thomas 
Read, deceased, we may imagine that the 
latter was about the same age. 

This tallies well with the age of Thom vs 
Read, "the Witness," as deposed by him --- 
born 1630. 

John Mattson, a brother to the above 
Thomas, was bapt. loth day, 5 mo. [July] 
1636) 1st Ch. Rec.) and married Mary Cot- 
ton, dau. of Sargent Wm. Cotton [see in- 
ventory] the 7th of March, 1659. 

The children of Thomas- and Mary (Read) 
Matson were : 

Thomas, of Thomas and Marv Matson, 
born March 1. 1663. (Boston T. Rec.) 

Thomas, of Thomas Matson's wife [Mary] 
bapt. 16 day 8 mo. [Oct.] 1664, (1st Ch. Rec ) 

From this it will be seen that Mary 
was a member of the First Church, though 
her first husband, Thomas Read, was not 



and her second, Thomas Matson, was not 
until some time prior to the following entry 
in the 1st Church records : 

"Ann. dau. of Thomas Matson. bapt. 
the 17th day, 11 mo. [February], 166s." 

What became of them ? 



Your Secretary states that owing to the 
fact that Thomas Read and wife Mary left 
no descendants bearing his name, little in- 
terest has been taken in his ancestry or 
genealogical record, no account having been 
published so far as he knows. This has 
incite i him to compile this brief account 
and place it upon record. 

A second reason was to correct such mis- 
statements as those made in the "History 
of the Reed Family, 1851, by Jacob YV. Reed', 
p. 286, where he states that 

Thorn, is [Read of Boston) son of Elias [since 
provel a mythii ,il person], settle J in Sudbury ( '. ) 
an,/ died July ,?,-, i6jg, leaving a son Thomas . 

The latter he identifies with that Thomas 
Read of Sudbury, made a freeman in 1656 
and deceased in 1701 (for whose will see 
Reade Record No. X) who was in fact an 
original immigrant himself from the city of 
Colchester, Essex Co., England. 

There is not the slightest evidence that 
Thomas of Boston ever saw Sudbury, much 
less that he was of that family. The death 
of his son Thomas as a mere child disproves 
the entire statement. 

A third reason your Secretary has in writ- 
ing this article is to continue aud complete 
the investigation of each immigrant prior 
to 1700, noted in the "Reade List" printed 
in the Reade Record No. Ill, in 1910. 

Elimination is often quite as important as 
substantiation. 



THE READE RECORD 



23 



©bituaries 



REV. JAMES REED 

Rev. James Reed, President of the Reade 
Society from Oct., 1908, to Oct., 1915, was born 
on Beacon Hill, Boston, on Dec. 8, 1834, anil 
had lived there throughout his long life, and 
most of this time at the old home on Louis- 
burg Square. He was the son of Sampson 
Reed of the well-known drug firm of Reed, 
Cutler & Co. He was educated at the 
Boston Latin School and graduated from 
Harvard University with the degree of A.B. 
in 1855. Three years later he was awarded 
his master's degree at this college. 

The late Bishop Phillips Brooks was an 
intimate friend and a classmate of the Rev. 
Mr. Reed during their high school course 
and at Harvard, and both, after their gradu- 
ation from Harvard were masters at the 
Latin school for a time. The late Major 
Henry L. Higginson also was one of his 
college classmates and an intimate friend 
during his lifetime. 

He was ordained to the ministrv in 1860, 
and at once became assistant to his uncle, 
the Rev. Thomas Worcester, the first pastor 
of the Church of the New Jerusalem, whom 
he succeeded at the close of Mr. Worcester's 
pastorate of 49 years. The pastorates of the 
two clergymen covered a period of 109 years. 

During his long ministerial career Mr. 
Reed was prominent in all matters relating 
to his denomination, and it is interesting to 
note that at the time of his death his pastor- 
ate exceeded in years that of any clergyman 
in Boston. He died at his residence in 
Boston on May 21, 1921. A portrait of Rev. 
James Reed was published in the first issue 
of the Reade Record. 



Mr. Read was born in Dunstable, on Aug. 
7th, 1835, the son of Calvin and Catherine 
(Baxter) Read. He was educated in the 
schools of Dunstable and Fitchburg, and 
later was a chair manufacturer in Gardner 
until 1896, when he retired trom business. 
He was a descendant of Thomas Read* of 
Chelmsford, as follows: 

Thomas 1 — Hannah Blanchard. 

Thomas'-'-— Sarah Fletcher. 

Timothy"— Mary Cummings. 

Eleazer 4 — -Rachel Cummings. 

Caleb''— Sarah Richardson. 

Calvin 11 — Catherine Baxter. 

Charles Freeman 7 , b. Aug. 7, 1835 ; d. 
Mar. 24, 1921. 

His funeral took place March 28th, from 
the G.A.R. headquarters in Worcester at 
his request. 

*Notk — See an account of Thomas Read and fam- 
ily of Chelmsford in Reade Record No. V- 

"I he History of the Reed Family." I p. 152) states 
that he was a descendant of Esdras Read, of Boston, 
which is an error For account of the latter, see 
Reade Records Nos IV.. V. and X. 



MRS. CHARLOTTE S. EVERETT 

Our Society loses a most gracious and 
estimable member in the death at her home 
in Chicago, Nov. 24, 1919, of Mrs. Char- 
lotte Sticknf.y Everett. She was a lady 
of unusual intellectual ability, and a keen 
observer of social and political affairs, 
having attended every national Republican 
Convention of recent years. She was a 
Daughter of the American Revolution and 
other patriotic societies, taking a prominent 
part wherever she appeared, by her tact, 
kindly manner, and force of character. She 
was keenly interested in genealogical matters 
and the work of tke Reade Society. Her 
daughter, Mrs. Irene F. Willetts, succeeds 
her in membership in the Reade Society. 



SUDBURY READ FAMILY 



CHARLES FREEMAN READ 

Charles Freeman Read, a member of 
our Society who had always been interested 
in its work and attended many of its meet- 
ings, died March 24th last at his home in 
Worceter, where he had lived for the past 
twenty - five years, He was a Civil War 
veteran and of the Third Massachusetts 
Cavalry. He served under Generals Banks, 
Butler and Sheridan in the Department of 
the Gulf and the Shenandoah Valley, where 
he was an eye-witness of Sheridan's nde. 
He was also a member of Hope Lodge, A.F. 
& A.M., of Gardner. 



Record No. XII 

Three children should be added to the 
family of Isaac Read (No. 11) and wife 
Experience: 

No. 39a. Samuel born Feb. 19. 1738-9. 
Bapt. Sept. 8, 1745. Prob. died young. 

No. 41a. Samuel, born Aug. 5, 1746. 
Prob. died young. 

No. 42a. Eunice, bapt. Feb. 12, 1739. 
Twin to Lois (No. 42). No further 
reference. Not named in father's will. 
Probably died young. 



(Cnmmmtutfaltli of MaaGacltitsctts 



Uir it KnatUtt That whereas James Reed, Charles F. Read, 
Alanson H. Reed, George S. Stewart, Henry B. Reed, J. Warner 
Reed, Arthur V. Clarke, Harold C. Read, Charles \V. Reed, 
and Harold F. Reed have associated themselves with the in- 
tention of forming a corporation under the name of 

OJhr Su-aflp ^nrirti} 

for the purpose <>f cal research mil the collection 

and publication of (lulu aqvd inform ibion concerning the 
alogies oj Hie Hemic families, however the name may be 
Spelled; also to /mi/ ana or holt/ property and real estate 

for the use of soiil corporation; mnl such other property us 
111 onu incuts mnl memorials and real estate of historical inter- 
est ; also to adopt suitable emblems, arms, or insignia, for 
use of said corporation mnl its members; mid have complied 
with the provisions of the statutes of this Commonwealth in 
such eases mmle and provided, as appears from the certificate 
of /he proper Officers of said, corporation, dnli/ approved by 
the Commissioner of Corporations and recorded in this office: 

Nam, abrrrfnrr, /. Frank ,/. Donahue. Secretary of the 
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Jin lirrrtm rcrttfit thai said 
James Reed, Charles F. Read, Alanson H. Reed, George S. Stew- 
art, Henry B. Reed, J. Warneb Reed, Arthur F. Clarke, Harold 
C. Read, Charles W. Reed, and Harold F. Reed, their associ- 
ates and successors arc legally organizt d and established as, and 
arc hereby made, an existing corporation, under the name o/ 

ullir Kraut ^nrirly 

with the powers, rights and privileges, and subject to the 
limitations, duties and restrictions which by law appertain 

thereto. 

iUttnCBB my official signature hereunto subscribed, 
and the Great Seal of the Com- 
monwealth of Massachusetts 
hereunto affixed, this twenty- 
f *\ fourth day of Februanj, in the 

I \ year of our Lord one thousand 

\ J nine hundred and fourteen. 

\^__^y FRANK J. DONAHUE, 

Secretary of the Commonwealth 









U be TRea&e TRecorb 

Number XIV. BOSTON. MASS.. U.S.A. Oct., 1921 .-Oct., 1922 



THE READE SOCIETY 

FOR GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH 
ORGANIZED 1904 INCORPORATED 1914 

Our Country is in Danger! 

Sinister forces -red, alien, f^w—H Ail true Americans must 

andtraitoious Amenean- WWSK " Rally ' 'round the //,?;-" 

< 7 ' 1 ' '" :i '"' k ''" des/rov our W|SS?35, and what it stands for — 

Constitution, our Sufi erne w C ** ^ 1 "* 

Court and our Corennnrut w^ii - Vr^. Liberty Under Law ! 

Our inheritance from the Fathers must be tianstnilted intact 
to our children and grandchildren to the last generation. 

The Eighteenth Annual Meeting of the Reade Society was 
held in Kimball Hall, New England Historic-Genealogical Society, 
9 Ash'burton Place, Boston, October 25, 192 1, according to notice. 

The President, Henry B. Reed, presided, and called the meet- 
ing to order, an 1 ma le a short address of welcome to the members. 
The rep >rt of the Treasurer was then read and approved, and a 
copv ordered sent to each member. 

The Secretary's report was then read and approved. It showed 
a membership of 225, the largest in the existence of the Society, but 
urged the importance of a much larger one, so that its work might 
be inc-eased. No report was made by the Executiva»Committee, 
to whom the matters of change in the coat of arms-aml giving 
prizes to increase the membership were submitted, Jt*1 their fur- 
ther consideration was discontinued. ^ '^^' 

The election of officers was then in ordeiv-^Tor -names of 
those who will serve the ensuing year, see page 12. — -** 

The speakers who had been expected to deliver formal ad- 
dresses having sent word of unavoidable absence, informal remarks, 
humorous, witty, wise and otherwise, were made by different mem- 
bers, followed by a social hour and the serving of refreshments. 

At the close of the meeting all joined in singing "America." 

The Society then adjourned until the next annual meeting, in 
October, 1922. 

A L ANSON H. REED, 
Old State House Secretary 

Boston, Massachusetts 
29 October, 1921. 



THE READE RECORD 



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CONTRIBUTIONS, Nov. 1, 1921 -Nov. 1, 1922 



FREE GIFT FUND 

MARSHAL C. LEFFERTS $11.75 

New York City 

EDMUND S. READ 10.00 

Washington, D. C. 

ALANSON H. REED 10.00 

Boston, Mass. 

GEORGE WINDLE REED 6.00 

Maj.-Gen. U.S.A. 
Columbus Barracks, Ohio 

JAMES H. REED, D.M.D 5.50 

Boston, Mass. 

A. WILLIAM READ 5.00 

Leicester, England 

GEORGE H. READ 5.1 

Great Barrington, Mass 

WILLIAM E. REED 5.00 

New York City 
MRS. CAROLINE S. COOPER • • 5.00 
Minneapolis, Minnesota 

JOSEPH EDGAR READ 5.00 

Erie, B.C., Canada 

HARRY G. FLETCHER 5.00 

West Somerville, Mass. 

ELLA HOWARD RRED 5.00 

New Bedford, Mas9. 

NEWBURY FROST READ 5.00 

New York City 
MRS. ELLA REED ANDREWS-. • 5.00 
New York City 

GEORGE WALDO READ 5.00 

Taunton, Mass. 

MISS IRENE E. WILLETTS 5.00 

Chicago, Illinois 

CHARLES READ COREY 5.00 

Washington, D.C. 

FLOYD O. REED, M.D 5.00 

Yonkers, N.Y. 

ALLEN C. SARGENT 5.00 

Graniteville, Miss. 

MRS. F. R. BAUKHAGE 4.50 

Danville, Illinois 

CLARENCE F. READ 2.00 

Wellsville, N. Y. 

MONTGOMERY REED 2.00 

Boston, Mass. 

MRS. VICTOR A. BIMFORD 2.00 

Roxbury, Maine 
MISS EVA St. C. BRIGHTMAN . . 2.00 
Fall River, Mass. 

MISS LILLIAN REED 1.50 

Washington, D. C. 

RS. HELEN R. M. TUTTLE 1.50 

Syracuse, N. Y. 

GEORGE W. REED 1.00 

Boston, Mass. 

HAMPTON STORY 1.00 

Altadena, California 



ALBERT A. REED 1.00 

Winchester, Mass. 

MISS MARGARET H. READ 1.00 

New York City 

JOHN W. REED, 3d 1.00 

Benton Harbor, Mich, 

CHARLES F. REED 1.00 

Somerville, Mass. 

MRS. BERTHA C. F. READ 1.00 

Fall River, Mass. 

R. L. REED 1.00 

Vancouver, B. C. 

HERNANDO M. READ 1.00 

Lexington, Virginia 

WILLIAM T. REED 1.00 

East Lynn, Mass. 

ALONZO B. REED 1.00 

Boston, Mass. 

J. E. REED 1.00 

Erie, Penn. 

HAROLD F. REED 1.00 

Brook line, Mass. 

IDA C. FRAZEE 1.00 

Leominster, Mass. 

E. M. REED 1.00 

Wellesley Hills, Mass. 

VIRGINIA REED FARR 1.00 

Los Angeles, California 

JAMES A. READ 1.00 

Arlington, New Jersey 

MRS. VICTOR H. ROBERTS 1.00 

Grand Rapids, Mich. 

DANIEL V. RAYMOND 1.00 

New York City 
MISS CLARA FRANCES PRESCOTT 1.00 
Lawrence, Mass. 

MARY A. C. BRUMMER 1.00 

Lisburn, N.H. 

MISS ELLEN A. REED 1.00 

New Haven, Conn. 

MRS. CHARLES K. REED 1.00 

Worcester, Mass. 
MRS. ELIZ. REED LEVINGS.... 1.00 
New York Citv. 

J. PAULDING READ 1.00 

Newark, N.J. 

MRS. J. E. ROBINSON 1.00 

Bloomington, 111. 

MRS. G. C. PRESTON 1.00 

Norwich, Conn. 
MRS. ELEANOR M. BAMFORD.. 1.00 

Wilkes-Barre, Penn. 

$155.75 
ADVERTISING 

EDMUND S. READ S10.00 

Washington. D.C. 

RESEARCH 

ALANSON H. REED 150.00 

^Expended in search of Ipswich, Salem. 

Marblehead, and other records.) 

Total contributions $215.76 



THE READE RECORD 



REEDS OF MARBLEHEAD 

ESSEX COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS 
By Alanson H. Reed 



THE FOLLOWING NAMES AP- 
PEAR ON THE RECORDS 

No. I— Edward 1 Read, Fisherman b. 1611 
— 1614 (deposed) Wife Margaret ( — ). 

No. II — Samuel 1 Reede (or Redd as usual- 
ly written in Mhd. Records) b. abt. 
1635-40 (estimate) (1) wife Wilmot 
(Condey); (2) wife Jane (Stacey). 

No. Ill — Richard 1 Reed, Fisherman b. 
1632 (deposed) wife Esther (James) 
prob. deceased before 1690. 

Issue — Samuel. Richard, Benjamin. 

M. (2) Prudence Hicks of Boston. 

Issue Prudence, b. abt. 16' , who 
m. (1) Patrick Swenton 17 July 1715 
mhd. m. (2) Samuel Hide. 7 Jan. 1722, 
Boston m. (3) William Gray 11 Nov. 
1728, Boston. 

No. IV — Samuel 2 Reed, Innkeeper b. 1st 
Oct., 1661. (1) wife Abigail (Rowland) 
(2) wife Mary (Bridges). Son of Rich- 
ard III. 

No. V— Richard 3 Reed— son Richard III 
b. abt 1663-65. d. abt. 1698. Wife Sarah 
(Sandin) m. 17 July 1690. 

A— (Prob.) Jeremiah 3 b. abt. Mav, 1691. 
Wife Abigail (White) m. Jan. 15, 1712- 
13. 

B— "Richard' son Sara bp. May 22, 1692" 

— (Mhd. Rec.) (wife Sarah (Sandin) 
She m. (2) Thomas Twisden, June, 1699, 
and signed herself Widow Twisden in 
1707.) 

No. VI— Benjamin' Reed, b. abt. 1665-7 
(estimate) estate settled in 1700 by his 
brother Samuel IV. Prob. unmd. Son 
of Richard III. 

THE SECRETARY SAYS: 

That he has long been interested 

in the immigrants of the Read or Reed 
name (however spelled) that settled in 
the ancient Town of Marblehead. Very 
little indeed has been printed concerning 



them or their decendants. The relations 
between them have been very difficult to 
understand. In the 75 vols, of the New 
England Register, not half a page of in- 
formation will be found, in Savage little 
or nothing and the "Hist. Reed Fam." 
pub. 1861, some 6 pages only, which con- 
tain so many gross errors (as explained 
in another column) that the account is 
very misleading. It is for these rea 
that so much space has been given in this 
Record, No. XIV, to the "Reeds of Mar- 
blehead." The recent investigation for 
your Secretary of the original records at 
Salem, Marblehead and Ipswich by Mr. 
G. A. Taylor has afforded much new in- 
formation, which is now in part placed 
before the Society, in addition to what is 
already known from other sources. But 
it should be understood that the Secre- 
tary takes sole responsibility for the state- 
ments concerning relationship in the pre- 
eeeding table. As far as possible in the 
articles following these have been backed 
by documentary evidence. Where that 
is lacking, after careful study and elimin- 
ation, he has not hesitated to make in- 
ductions giving his reasons for the same. 

KINSHIP 

Regarding Edward Read I. and his re- 
lation to the others in the table above 
not a single item of information has been 
found that proves kinship. That his name 
does not occur among later generations 
in Marblehead seems to confirm non-re- 
lation. Nor is there evidence that he left 
decendants. 

No original signature of his, has so 
far been found, so we are unable to say 
how he would have written it. The Town 
Clerks and others in their entrys spelled 
it as suited their own fancy — Read or 
Reade. Edward was the first of the name 
in Marblehead & that Samuel 1 & Richard' 
came so soon after may indicate, despite lack 
of evidence, that there was some distant kin- 
ship for the settlement then was a very 
small one. 

Continued on page six. Pages/out and five 

should be read as a continuation of p. /s". 



THE RKAHE RECORD 



RICHARD READ AND PRUDENCE HICKS 



MARRIAGE CONTRACT RECORDED 



1691, 18th August 



Salem Registry 



This indenture, made ye seaventh day of 
August Anno Domini one thousand six 
hundred ninety and one, K. Regis et Regina 
Guliel Gulielmi et Maria nunc Augliae, <K;c., 
Tertio — Between Richard Read of Marble- 
head in ye Countie of Essex In New Eng- 
land Mariu r or ye one part, and D 
Harris and William Hall of Boston in ye 
Countie of Suffolke in New England mar- 
rinerson the other part Witnesseth : that ye 
said Richard Read for and in consideration 
of a marriage contract already agreed upon 
by Gods Grace shortly to be solemn 1. 1 
between ye aforesaid Richard Read & 
Prudence Hicks of Boston . . . spinster, and 
for ye future good and in testimonie of ye 
singular love . . . which he hath . . . unto 
ye s d Prudence, and for ye comfortable main- 
tenance of ye s d Prudence if the s d marriage 
doe take effect and she happen to survive 
the said Richard Read and for . . . cons EY- 
ING of all . . . the Dwelling houses lands . . . 
and goods . . . hereinafter mentioned ... to 
said David Norris and William Hall ... for 
the sevrral uses ... in & by these presents 
mentioned . . . and to no other use intent or 
purpose whatsoever. All THAT his two 
messuages ... in Mai blehead ... in ye p r seut 
occupation of the said Read . . . Also one 
messuage . . . more . . . Also two ten acre lotts 
Also one ten acre lott . . . Also one ten acre 
Lott of land . . . Also three acres . . . also 
another piece of land . . .of two acres., .with 
a Dwelling Honse and smiths shop. . .(all) in 
Marblehead. 

Also a certain island . . . called Catt Island 
... in the Northeast side of Marblehead 
Harbour. . .and within ye precincts of Mar- 
blehead . . .containing . . . ten acres more or 

less. . .Also . . . one acre . . . with a dwelling 
house and stage thereon ... in Mhd. 

Also. . .three acres. . . in Salem. . .aforesd. 
* * * 

Also ye sd Reed's two shallops, the one 
called ye "Greenland Merchant" and ye 



other ye "Samuel," with all their masts, 
sailes . . . &c. . . now lying in Marblehead 
Harbour . . . together with all his stock of 
sheep, goods, chattels, cattle, &c. 

To Have and to Hold. . . (by) ye said 
David Harris and William Hall ... to and 
for ye use . . . hereafter . . . expresed and 
limited . . . 

That is to save, from and immediately 
alter the consumation oi ye aforesd marriage 
between sd Richard Read and the said Pru- 
dence Hicks, unto . . . ye use ... of ye sd 
Richard Read cc Prudence . . . during the 
term of ye said Richard Read and after 
ye decease of said Richard Read if she the 
sd Prudence survive him then ye one half 
part of all ye above granted - - preames to 
remain to ye... use . . . of ye sd Prudence 
for and during the tearm of her natural life 
and after ye decease of the sd Prudence, then 
to ye use ... .of the children of the sd Rich- 
ard Read (and) the said Prudence ... and 
the sonnes of ye sd Richard Read, namely, 
Sam 11 Read, Richard Read and Benj* Read 
of Marblehead ... in equal parts. And. . . 
concerning ye other half ... to ye use of 
such prsons as ye sd Richard Read, by his 
last Will ... or any other wrighting by 
him subscribed . . . shall nominate & ap- 
point, and in default of such appoint- 
ment, to the use of the heirs of sd Richard 
Read. 

In Witness Whereof, ye parties to these 
p'sents have sett their hands and seals ye 
day & date above written. 

Richard Read & Seale. 
In presence of us, 

Joseph Smith 

Samuel Mears 

Juo. Hill 

Eletizer Moody, Sec 'try. 

Boston, 17 August, 1691. 
Richard Read p'snally appearing acknow- 
ledged ye written instrument to bee his ac- 
aud deed before me, 

Samuel Sewall, Assist. 



THE REAPE RECORD 



RICHARD REED 3 TO CALEB BUFFAM 



1698, 27 June 



Salem Registry 



Conveys — " My moiety or one half part of 
two . . . peices of marsh . . . scituate in ye 
South field in Salem. . . Signed and sealed 
27 dav of June, 1698. 

Richard Read & a Seale. 
Prudence Read & a Seale. 
Wits: 

John Cromwell 
John Mascol 
Steph Sewall 

(Recorded 28 June, 1698) 



PRUDENCE REED, Sr., & PRUDENCE Jr. 

TO SAMUEL REED, MARINER 

1693 29 December Salem Registry 

This Instrument, made betwixt Samuel 
Reed of Marblehead, Marriner, son of 
Richard Reed Deceased on ye one part and 
Prudence Reed now relict of ye said Richard 
Reed and Prudence Reed Junr, daughter of 
said Richard Reed on ye other part, WIT- 
NESSETH, that I Samuel Reed on considera- 
tion of mv sister and mother Quitt claiming 
and relinquishing their whole right to the 
estate of sd Richard Reed & of my mother 
In law Prudence Reed Senr, spinster, clear- 
ing the estate from all just debts due from 
ye same and paying of ye funerall charges, 
...have besides twelve pounds in silver paid 
her toward ye defraying of ye charges," etc. 

Conveys: divers furniture and real estate. 

Sister Prudence not yet of age. 



Signed 29 December, 1699, by 

Samuel Reed & a Seale. 
Mary Keed & a Seale. 
Wits : 

Sam'l Cheever 
Benj. James 

(Recorded 28 June, 1698) 

SAMUEL REED TO BENJAMIN STACEY 
1709-10, 31 January Salem Registry 

Know All Men by these Presents, that 
I Samuel Reed of Marblehead Merch't and 
Mary my wife ... in consideration of . , . 
one hundred and thirty pounds . . . paid by 
Benjamin Stacey . . . convey one parcel of 
Land ... in Marblehead . . . about one quar- 
ter of an acre . . . with the Dwelling house 
which was sometimes our Mothers and 
her Daughters, Prudence Reed Sen r and 
Prudence Reed Jun r , and the little necessary 
house near adjoining . . . bounded," etc. 
Signed Samuel Reed 

her mark 
Mary O Reed 
Acknowledged, Marblehead, 31 Jan. ,1709-10 

^=N.B.— The above papers should be 
read as a continuation of page 15. It will be 
seen that the deed of Richard to his son 
Samuel (p. 15) and the above marriage con- 
tract are recorded at the same time and 
constitute parts of one transaction, whereby 
Samuel takes lis father's estate subject to 
the terms of the marriage contract. 

Continued on fage ib 



CUSTOMS AND TRADITIONS 

Roads says, p. 37, in his History of Mar- 
blehead : "In the preceeding chapter an 
evidence has been given of the superstition 
of the people of Essex County at the time of 
the ever - memorable witchcraft delusion 
(1692) but it would be impossible to relate 
half the superstitious traditions firmly be- 
lieved by the inhabitants of Marblehead then 
and for more than a century after. Stones 
of phantom ships seen at sea before the loss 
of a vessel ; of the appearance on the water 
of loved ones who had died at home ; foot- 
steps and voices heard mysteriously in the 
still hours of the night, coming as warnings 
from another world ; signs and omens which 
foretold the approaching death of some mem- 
ber of the family, or prophecies whispered 
on the wind that those away on the mighty 
deep would find a watery grave. 

There were other beliefs as firmly held 
which, though equally as superstitious, 
were much more agreeable and romantic. 
* * * 

The young women, on a night when a new 
moon was to appear, would congregate at 



one of the houses in the neighborhood, and, 
putting a huge pot of tallow over the fire, 
would drop "hob nails" into the boiling 
fat, firmly believing that the young man 
who should appear while the nails were 
dropping would be the future hui-band of the 
fair damsel who dropped them. At oilier 
times the young women would go to an up- 
per window, and, reaching half way out, 
throw a ball of yam into the street, believing 
that the lucky youth who picked it up 
would surely come forward with an offer of 
marriage. 



A marriage was the scene of the most joy- 
ous festivities, and the occasion of a season 
of merrymaking for an entire week in dura- 
tion. Everybody in the community who 
chose attended the wedding, and when at a 
late hour in the night the guests were ready 
to depart for their own homes, the bride and 
groom were put to bed by their maids and 
groomsmen, and the entire company marched 
around their bed, throwing old shoes and 
stockings and various other missies at them 
for good luck and by way of a parting salute. 



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THE READE RECORD 



MARBLEHEAD 

It is proposed to consider each of these 
immigrants in turn but before doing so 
it seems desirable to give a short account 
of the township or town itself, which is 
a peninsula, jutting boldly out into the 
ocean (having its settlement on its south- 
ern side) situated in the south-eastern 
corner of Essex County, Mass., sixteen 
miles northeast of Boston. 

The township or peninsula is about four 
miles in length from northeast to south- 
west and one and one-half to two miles 
in breadth; on its northern side having 
Salem Harbor across which lies the town 
of Salem. To the south is a small pen- 
insula rather more than a mile in length 
and about a half mile wide, which from 
the earliest settlement of the town has 
been known as the "Great Neck," and 
in early days was used mainly as- the 
"cow common," for cattle, horse, sheep 
& goat pasturage. It connects with the 
main land by a narrow isthmus. Between 
these two peninsulas is a beautiful sheet 
of water about a mile and a half long 
and a half a mile wide forming one of 
the most excellent harbors on the New 
England coast — Marble Harbor in olden 
days — Marblehead Harbor in these days. 

The early town settled in 1628 or 9, 
was a fishing station and seaport of the 
most primitive type. Its speech, dress 
customs & trade, its ideals in politics 
and in religion, or the lack of it, as well 
as the almost lack of laws, made it a 
community utterly unlike the Puritans. 

In fact they were not in sympathy with 
the Puritan ideals of church or govern- 
ment. In spirit they were "Church of 
England" men and Episcopalians. 

"The people were negligent of many of 
the laws of the Colony and treated others 
with contempt: and as laws which were 
readily obeyed by the Puritans in other 
towns could not be enforced among them, 
special legislation was found necessary 
for their government. 

According to the Puritan law, only church 
members could become free men and only 
free men could vote and hold office in the 
Colony. 



The inhabitants of Marblehead were 
far from being a religious people, and 
though they supported a religious teacher 
(Mr. William Walton) and ' maintained 
the ordinances" on Sunday, no church 
had been formed and there were few 
church members among them. As a con- 
sequence there were no magistrates or 
officers in their community, and being at 
some distance (3 or 4 miles) from the 
settlement at Salem they knew no law 
save their own will." 

(Roads Hist. Mhd.) 

So the Great & General Court of the 
Colony of the Mass. Bay, ordered Salem 
to elect "some honest & able man 
though he be not a freeman" to take the 
oath as constable, and serve at Marble- 
head, and David Curwin was elected & 
sworn in for one year. 

THE FISHING INDUSTRY 

In the early days of the settlement 
doubtless there were few if any vessels 
of size to go to the "Grand Banks" and 
the fish being plentiful around Marble- 
head coast & in the harbors small sail- 
ing vessels and row boats or dones were 
used. 

Mr. Josiah Cotton, school master ihe'e 
in 1703, speaks of the place "being then 
under decay" and that "the whole town- 
ship is not much bigger than a large 
farm and very rocky, so they are forct 
to get their living out of the sea, not hav- 
ing room (land) to confound the fisher- 
man with the husbandman & so spoil 
both as they do in some places. It has 
a very good harbour which they improve 
to the best advantage for Fishing both 

summer & winter. And finally is one 

of the best country places to keep school 
provided a man be firmly fixt in prin 
ciples of virtue and religion, which I 
heartily wish were more among them in 
the life & power of it" (Roads p. 41.) 

When the industry became of suffi- 
cient importance to send vessels fishing 
on the "Grand Banks" they are described 
as follows: 

When the industry expanded into fish- 
ing on the "Grand Banks" "the vessels 



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were somewhat clumsy in appearance, 
especially when compared with the beau- 
tiful lines of the Burgess Model. They 
were very high & bluff in the bow, 
while the stern was high, made so by a 
half deck which was built forward enough 
to take in the main mast. Three sails 
only were carried, the jib, foresail and 
main sail. No stay sail was carried. 
There was a top mast but it was never 
used for carrying sail. The vessels av- 
eraged from sixty-eight to ninety-eight 
tons burden, & were built more for 
safety than for speed, so that as a rule 
they were good sea boats, but not very 
fast sailers. The interior of these ves- 
sels was as crude as the exterior was un- 
lovely to the eye. A large brick fire place 
occupied the after part of the forecastle 
and in a large iron pot, suspended by a 
crane over a fire of wood, the food for 
the crew was cooked. It did not require 
much culinary art to prepare the meals 
of the seven or eight men who made up 
a crew. Twice a year, in the spring and 
in the autumn, they made their trips to 
the Banks, remaining from three to four 
months each trip and subsisting principal- 
ly upon fish, which at nearly every meal 
formed the chief article of diet. Each 
man, except the skipper, took his turn as 
cook, during the voyage, and as a result 
the difference in the quality of the cook- 
ing varied the monotony of life from day 
to day. 

They were not much troubled about 
table etiquette, those robust & hearty 
fishermen of long ago. When a meal 
was ready to serve, the large iron pot 
was taken from its place over the fire, 
and placed on the floor in the center of 
the forecastle. The food was dipped out 
into a large tin pan, and this was placed 
on the pot. 

Around the pan the crew gathered each 
helping himself and eating directly from 
the pan. Occasionally when the "Mess" 
happened to be chowder or stewed beans, 
the most fastidious among them dipped 
a portion in a mug, but as a rule all 
hands were content with the facilities pro- 
vided by the single pan. 

There were but few rules to be ob- 



served, but one was inflexible. Every 
man was expected to eat with a fork or 
a spoon, and putting the fingers or hand 
in the pan was strictly forbidden. 

An old Marblehead skipper, Capt. 
Thomas J. Peach, who sailed to the 
Banks for fifty years, making eight-five 
voyages gave the following as the "menu" 
for the several days in the week. 

Sunday — Breakfast, fat cakes, chocolate and 
baked halibut ; dinner, stewed beans with 
tea; supper, baked halibut with tea & 
crackers. 

Monday — Breakfast, baked halibut; dinner, 
baked halibut ; baked halibut with tea & 
crackers. 

Tuesday — The same as on Monday. 

Wednesday — Breakfast, muddled tongues; 
dinner, baked halibut ; supper, baked 
halibut. 

Thursday — Breakfast, baked halibut; din- 
ner, corned beef, flour pudding with mo- 
lasses sauce, and baked potatoes ; supper, 
cold corned beef, potatoes & tea. 

Friday — Breakfast, baked halibut; dinner, 
haddock chowder ; supper, baked halibut. 

Saturday — Breakfast, baked halibut ; dinner, 
corned fish and potatoes ; supper, minced 
fish, a "Stir" pudding and rice chocolate. 

A system of perfect equality prevailed 
on board the vessels. No one received 
wages. Each man was entitled to share in 
the profits of the voyage and all were 
equally interested in obtaining as large a 
"fair" as possible. 

Three-eights of the profits after deducting 
the expenses of the "great general" went to 
the owners of the vessel. 

The "great general" consisted of about 
one hundred & fifty hogsheads of salt, used 
in packing the fish ; twelve barrels of mack- 
erel used for bait ; twenty-eight pounds of 
candles, and ten tons of ballast to be used 
in case the vessel shipped a sea & the salt 
became wet. The crew shared besides, in 
the expenses of the "small general" of which 
there were three and one-half cords of 
wood, one barrel of flour, two barrels of 
pork, one-half barrel o'f beef, six bushels 
of potatoes, ten pounds of tea, twenty-five 
pounds of rice, and eighteen pounds of 
chocolate. In addition each man carried on 
his own account one hundred & twenty-five 
pounds of hard bread, twenty-one pounds of 



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sugar, from two to three gallons of molasses, 
and the hooks and lines necessary for his 
share of the work. The fishing was done 
from the vessel. Dory and trawl fishing 
had not then been adopted by the Yankee 
fishermen, and were confined to the French- 
men who almost swarmed the Banks. Each 
man had his own Station when at the lines. 
. . . The fish were hauled in on deck, be- 
headed, split, packed in the hold and covered 
with salt, when the vessel was loaded, or 
as the fishermen expressed it "the salt was 
wet" — sometimes before, if fish were scarce 
— Sail was set for the homeward run. The 
fish were counted by the thousand, a good 
fare averaging from twenty to twenty-five 
thousand. There were times when an abun- 
dance of fish on the Banks enabled a fortu- 
nate schooner to home thirty thousand but 
not often. Then when the fare had been 
cured and a purchaser found, the fishermen 
reaped the monetary reward of their labor. 
But it was not great. Fortunate indeed 
were they when the total receipts for the 
two trips average three hundred dollars a 
man. Oftener it was two hundred & fifty. 
This was increased to a slight extent by a 
bounty of four dollars a ton paid by the 
government to all vessels that remained four 
months on the fishing grounds. 

In time, during the later days of the in- 
dustry, fishing from the vessel was aban- 
doned, & dory and trawl fishing were intro- 
duced. Stoves also replaced the brick fire- 
places ; a table hinged to the mast in the 
forecastle, so arranged as to turn up when 
not in use, and provided with strips on the 
sides to prevent pans from falling off when 
the vessel was rolling, was now used for 
serving meals ; and life at sea was rendered 
much more comfortable in every way. Es- 
pecially was this true after more modern 
methods of cooking were adopted & regular 
cooks hired. 

This last innovation was looked upon with 
contempt by many of the older fishermen 
who declared that they did not wonder that 
no money could be made in fishing when 
the crew of "the vessels were fed on pie 
and cake." 

(Roads Hist Mhd. pp 365-369) 

The first fair weather after reaching port 



was utilized by the fishermen for washing 
out. The schooner was brought as near the 
shore as possible and "a pound" — a square 
box-like structure composed of joist placed 
several inches apart on the sides & bottom 
so as to allow the water free access — was 
lashed to the sides. Into this receptacle the 
fish, which had been salted and packed in 
the hold of the vessel, were first pitched 
by those on board. Two members of the 
crew, somet.mes more shod in leather boots 
reaching to the knees and with heavy woolen 
mittens on their hands stood in the pound 
and washed the salt from the fish. 

The pound was more commonly used 
. . . where the shore was rocky and the men 
could not easily stand in the water on the 
beach to do the work. [Otherwise] "the 
fish were pitched from the vessels into 
dories and taken to the beach, where the 
men stood in the water and performed the 
work of washing out the salt. After being 
washed the fish were placed in wagons on 
shore and carted to the fish fences where 
they were cured. 

The fish fences— "flakes" as they were 
sometimes called — covered [in the later 
years] every available hill and headland on 
the mainland, and a portion of the harbor 
side of the Neck in the days when the fish- 
ing industry was at the height of its 
prosperity. 

These fences consisted of large wooden 
frames, covered [crosswise] with long nar- 
row strips of wood, [the frames] resting 
upon posts a few feet from the ground. In 
later days the frames were so arranged 
that they could be tilted so as to take the 
sun in any part of the day. 

The work of curing or Making fish as 
it was called required some skill & constant 
attention. After the fish had been spread 
out on the fences it was necessary to turn 
them over from time to time to dry them 
to the necessary degree of hardness. This 
work was usually done by men hired for 
the purpose under the supervision of the 
owners. . . . After the work of curing was 
completed, the fish were stored in ware 
houses of which their were many about the 
shore [in the later days] and were readily 
sold to merchants from Boston and else- 
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At times, however, the sales were slow, and 
then it was necessary to ship them to for- 
eign parts for a market. 

[Roads p. 355] 

In 1648 in a list of the Townsmen En- 
titled to share in the use of the common 
lands, 44 in number, the name of Reed how- 
ever spelled does not appear so we may 
believe that the immigrant Edward Read I 
arrived later, but not long after, as will be 
seen by the account following. 

I. 

EDWARD READ— 1650— 1695 

Fisherman Read List Xo. 24. 

Edward Read was born about 1611-1614 

according to the following depositions in 

Essex County Court Files : 

Sept. 13, 1662 he deposed his age as 48 
years — 1614. Nov. 29, 1666 he deposed his 
age as 55 — 1611. July 1, 1685 he deposed 
his age as 73 years — 1612. Sept. 24, 1660 in 
case vs. Diamond, the first mention of the 
name of his wife Margaret is found. Her 
maiden name is unknown. 

1650 in February in the Quarter Sessions 
Court Records the following entry is 
found : "Alice Peach fined for striking 
Edward Reads wife." Alice then 35 years 
of age. This is the first mention made 
in any Record so far found, of Edward 
& his wife [Margaret]. So that it is 
evident they came to Marblehead some 
time between 1648 and 1650. Alice Peach 
(wife of John) deposed June 1669, that 
she was 54 years of age & so born in 
1615. John Peach was one of 24 inhabi- 
tants of Marblehead in 1637, and promi- 
nent in the affairs of the town. 

1654 Nov. 22 — Att a meeting of the Towns- 
men 22d 9 mo. It is agreed that Edward 
Read shall [have] forten [shillings?] a 
year for his pains to warn the Town and 
to ring the bell," etc. 

1655 — Land of "Dixie [Thomas] and [Ed- 
ward] Read" is mentioned valued at 
£ 02-00 00. 

1657 — at a meeting of the Towne March 22 
1657. It is agreed that Edward Read 
shall have forten shillings a year for his 
paines to warn the Townsmen, to ringe 
the Bell and to look to the meeting house, 
to find nayles for the glass of the win- 
dow ; and to be paid out of the Towne 
Rates. 

1659 — Oct 3. Edward Read with Thomas 
Kllis and John Codner appear at Ipswich 
Court as witnesses on the presentation of 
Elias White and Will Wood for striking 
each other in the ferry-boat. At this time 



the only public conveyance to & from 
Salem was a ferry-boat which was rowed 
across Salem Harbor as often as there 
were passengers who desired to cross, the 
fare being regulated by a town Meeting 
as "two pence for the inhabitants of Mar- 
blehead" — Thomas Dixie was required to 
keep a boat and an assistant [Road p. 21] 

1660— At a town Meeting [p. 28 Roads 
Hist] it was voted that "all these fifteen 
or sixteen houses built in Marblehead 
before ye year 1660, shall be allowed one 
cow common and a halfe" 

1662 — 13, Sept he appeared as witness in 
the case about Richard Rowlands mare 
and made deposition above regarding his 
own age — 

1666 — 29, Nov. he appeared as witness in 
the case about Richard Norman Sr. and 
made deposition above regarding his own 
age. 

1674 Oct. 7: — The town had increased to 
such an extent that there were one hun- 
dred and fourteen house holders whose 
names with their commonage are recorded 
in the records — which are as follows : 
[in part] 

John Roads 1 Cow J^t 

Willm Beal 1 " V> 

Thomas Dixie I " yi 

Edw'd Read 1 " l A 

Mr. Thaddeus Redden 1 Cow 

Richard Read 2 Cow y 2 

*To mr. Read on Town land 1 Cow. 

fRichard Rith 3 Cows 

Samuel Reed 1 Cow 

Roger Russel 1 Cow 

John Roads Jr. 1 Cow 

Widow Stacie 1 Cow 

Henry Russell 1 Cow 

*This is given in Roads Hist. Marble- 
head p. 28 as "Thos." Read : A critical 
examination of the original record book 
proves it to have been a misreading of 
the words "To mr." Read which are so 
carelessly written that the copyist evi- 
dently read it "Tom's" and wrote it 
"Thos." but it referred to the Rich Read 
in the next line above. The name Thomas 
Read does not occur anywhere in the 
early Marblehead records. 

*A horse or mare [counted] as two cows, 
two yearling cattel for one cowe, four 
goats or sheep to a cowe, a steer or 
bullock of two years ould as a cowe" 

f'Rith," later spelled "Reith." Both per- 
haps a conception of the name "Rice." 

1675 — the war between the Massachusetts 
colonists and the Indians, known as "King 
Philips War" broke out." 



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Edward Reade served in Capt Moseleys Co. 
3, Sept. 1675 at Mt. Hope and also 25. Jan. 
1675/6 at Dedham plain (p. 64 & 72, 
Bodge). "The daring atrocities/ com- 
mitted by the Indians during this terrible 
war were such as to send terror to the 
stoutest heart. 

The war began by an attack made by 
the Indians on the town of Swanzea 
[Bristol County] where after slaughtering 
the cattle and plundering the houses, 
they fired on the inhabitants killing and 
wounding several. The troops of the 
Colony marched immediately to Swanzey, 
and upon their appearance the Indians 
fled marking the course of their flight 
by burning the buildings and fixing on 
poles the hands, scalps and heads of 
the whites. 

"Most of the settlements were sur- 
rounded by thick forrests, and as the 
Indians lived intermixed with the whites, 
the former were acquainted of course 
with the dwellings of the latter, and 
all the avenues to them: could watch 
their motions, and fall upon them in 
their defenseless and unguarded moments. 
Many were shot dead as they opened 
their doors in the morning; many while 
at work in the fields, and others while 
traveling to visit their neighbors, or to 
place> of worship; their lives were in 
continual jeopardy; no one could tell 
but that in the next moment he should 
receive his death shot from his barn, 
the thicket or the wayside. Defenseless 
villages were suddenly attacked, the 
houses burned and the men, women and 
children killed or carried into Captivity." 
This terrible and bloody war lasted 
three years and ended only at the death 
of King Philip. The whites had so dim- 
inished before its close that they began 
seriously to apprehend total extinction — 
[Roads: p. 29] 

1677 — The payment of nine shillings to 
Edward Read "the ferryman is listed." 
The ferry was across Salem Bay to the 
Salem settlement. 

1678 — He is paid for services rendered at 
the funeral of Vinson Gallison — 

1688 — He witnessed the will of Joseph 
Dallaber. (Essex Co. Records). 

1696 — Edward Reads death is noted in 
records of the First Congregational 
Church of Marblehead 
— But the death of his wife Margaret 
does not appear in the Marblehead Vital 
Records. 

Edward Read does not appear to have left 
descendants of record. No record has 
so far been found that indicates his kin- 
ship with others of the Read name in 



Marblehead. That the name Edward does 
not appear among the descendants of 
either Richard or Samuel, also points to 
the same conclusion. And yet with three 
of the Read name, at so early a date, in 
so small a settlement, engaged in the same 
occupation as "fisher men" it seems diffi- 
cult to beleive despite the lack of evidence 
that there was not some relationship. 

SAMUEL REDD II. [1635-40]— 1716 
Samuel Redd was born about 1635 or 40 
and married (1) prob. abt. 1655-60 Wil- 
mot Condy, daughter of Samuel & Ann, 
whose wills are given below — It will be 
noted that neither mention any Redd or 
Reed grand children or child, so it may 
safely be said that none existed at that 
date, 1678— 

Samuel 2 Redd m. (2) 4 Nov. 1692 Jane 
Stacey Sr. Jane Redd bur. Dec. 1, 1715. 
Samuel Redd bur. March 31, 1716— 
(Mhd Records) There is no record of 
issue of either wife. Samuel was a 
fisherman by occupation we take it. But 
of him Marblehead records contain but 
little information indeed — He seems to 
have owned no lands, held no office, en- 
gaged in no controversies that brought 
him within the action of the law, made 
no engagements with the town, nor with 
the townsmen to bring him into notice. It 
is probable that he was a fisherman in 
the harbor working as a helper in the 
"flake yards". Curing the fish, or en- 
gaged as a seaman in the fishing vessels 
of others — One item of interest is his 
signature or mark "S.R." to the will of 
Samuel Condy his Father-in law, but the 
most important relates to his wife Wil- 
mot (Condy) whose sad fate it was to be 
accused of being a witch, tried and con- 
victed by Court in Salem and executed 
as such by hanging in the year 1690. 
(These records have not yet been ex- 
amined but it is hoped to have it done in 
time to print results in the No. XV, 
Record.) 
1678: 27: 4 mo : (June) Will of Sam- 
uel Condy "The last will & testimony 
of Samuell Condy being in his p'fect 
memory the 9th of February 1677. 
Impr : that I doe give my whole estate to 
my wife Ann during the term of her life, 
after my debts are paid, and after the 
death of my said wife, I give it all to 
my daughter Ann and her children, only 
doe I give to my grand daughter Mary, 
Hester Greens daughter, the cupbard that 
now is in the house, & to Hester Green's 
son Charles, I give thirty shillings when 
he is about (fower) yeares of age (if he 
lives) and to Hester Greene I give one of 
the pewter dishes that was her Mother's 
Rehecka Condy. and one pewter dish to 
my daughter Ann that was her mothers : 



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and I doe make my wife Ann Condy & my 
daughter Ann Salters, my full and whole 
executrix for paying all debts & paying 
all legacies; as witness my hand this 
9th February 1677—; (fower) & (if he 
lives) was interlined before the sign- 
ing. 

the signe of 
Samuell "Sam" Condy 

Witness : the marke J of 

John Brimblecome 
Richard Read, 
John Petherick, 
Thomas Trefry 

The mark of Samuell "S.R." Reede 

John Brimblecome being sick tooke an 
oath that this was the will & testament 
of Samuell Conde : 

Taken on oath before me & Moses Mav- 
erick, June 25. 1678 

Richard Read gave oath in Court at 
Salem 29 : 4 : 78 that he was present with 
the rest of the witnesses," Etc 

1678:26:9 mo. (Nov.) Will of Wid. Ann 
Condy. This being the last will & tes- 
tament of Ann Condy, being in her right 
senses hath given to her sister Wilmet 
Red, one great Iron pot, more given to 
Christian Hooper, one pewter platter and 
one pewter platter to her daughter Eliz- 
abeth Hooper, more given to Elizabeth 
Tainer twenty shillings in money, more 
twenty shillings in money to her daughter 
Elizabeth Tainer, more three pewter 
platers & all her wearing clothes ; more 
ten shillings to Elias Tainer, more ten 
shillings to Josias Tainer, more ten shil- 
lings money to Ann Tainer, more ten 
shillings in money to Joana Tainer, more 
ten shillings in money to Thomas Tainer 
to be pd. when Christopher Hurabell paies 
his last pament concerning the house hee 
bought, more given to John Hooper los 
in money; more to his sonn John Hooper 
a pewter cupp; to Elizabeth Tainer a 
brass kettle & a candlestick & a pewter 
cupp, and a beaker ; to John Hoopers 
children a pewter poringer a peece ; more 
sd. porringer to Sarah Pike : and Matthew 
Salter is to fulfill these & pay the debts" 
Etc. 
(Signed) 9th 8 mo. (16) 78 

Sarah Pike. 

Witness 

Elizabeth Buere 

In Inventory — a dwelling house & 2 two 
thirds of a gard wth the p'viledges 

25-00-00 
Small out house 12-00-00 



To Mr. Jo n Sweet of Boston 00-15-00 

" Doctor Wells of Salem 01-10-00 

" Richard Knot of Marblehead 00-15-00 
" John Getchell " " 00-10-00 

" John Furbush " " 00-10-00 

" Mr. Roads " Linn 00-06-1 

" Jo n Waldren of Marblehead 00-04-00 

What was laid out in bury- 
ing Goody Condy 02-03-04. 

RICHARD REED— III— 1632— 1698— 1700 

Fisherman Reed List No. 37 

We now pass to the consideration of that 
Richard Reed so often mentioned in the 
early town records. It will be noted that 
the form of spelling we use is "Reed", be- 
cause in a deed which is printed below he 
signs his name in that way. But the town 
clerk and others often wrote it "Read" and 
sometimes "Reade" 

Richard Reed was born in 1632. According 
to a deposition made by him in September 
1672 when he testified that he was forty 
years of age. He died between 1698 & 
1700. [See below] 

He married (1) Esther James daughter 
of Erasmus of Marblehead. 

Issue 

Samuel 2 b. 1st Oct. 1661. m. (1) Abi- 
gail Rowland (2) Mary Bridges. 

Richard" (Estimate) b. abt. 1663-65 
m. 17 July 1690 Sarah Sandin 

Benjamin- b. abt. 1665-67 (Estimate). 
Estate settled by brother Samuel above 
in 1700 

He m. (2) Prudence Hicks of Boston. 

1660 May 14. — Ann Jarrots delivered and 
assigned all the right titall and interest 
which was the inheritance of her father 
John Russells in this town [Marblehead] 
to Richard Read and his heares for ever 
by turninge upp a turfe accordinge to 
law it beinge by estimation two ackers 
more or less and this was done in the 
presence of us John Bartoll and John 
Peach Senior, townsmen 

1660 — June 26. Erasmus James dying in- 
testate an inventory of his estate was 
brought in by his widow Jane James 
and she was appointed Executrix — 
She was to have the estate as long as she 
remained a widow, and if she died, it 
was to be equally divided between her son 
Erasmus and daughter Hester. The debts 
amounted to £19-I4s-I0d. Inventory total 



"To one coat sold to Sara Trevy" 00-08-00 



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HENRY B. REED, President, 

Auburndale, Mass. 
HELEN LEAH READ, Vice-President, 

Riverbank Court, Cambridge, Mass. 
CHARLES F. READ, Treasurer, 

Old State House, Boston, Mass. 
ALANSON H. REED, Secretary, 

Old State House, Boston, Mass. 
GEORGE S. STEWART, Genealogist, 
d. 17 Apr., 1922. Watertown, Mass. 

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THE SECRETARY SAYS: 

— That he sponsors first-page statements. 

— That he is happy that again he is privi- 
leged to send our members a new Reade 
Record— No. XIV. 

— That many circumstances have delayed 
its issue, for which he craves pardon, but 
"all's well that ends well, and here it comes 
at last. 

— That he returns his earnest thanks to 
those loyal contributors to the Free Gift 
Fund whose names appear on another page. 

— That it should be noted that this is a 24 
page number, set in S point, a smaller type, 
and therefore contains more printed matter 
than any previous Record. 

— That possibly it may not interest some 
of our members because lacking information 
concerning their own particular ancestors. 

— That, nevertheless, this number is of 
great value In clearing up obscure lines of 
some very early immigrants hitherto not 
properly written up. 

— That elimination often aids the genealo- 
gist as much as substantiation. 

— That it has been the policy of your Sec- 
i it. My to work out as far as possible the lines 
of every original immigrant who came to 
America prior to 1700. 

— That in this way each line will have a 
firm foundation for its historian to build on. 

— That only by these means can the many 
errors now in circulation be corrected. 

— That a comparison of the articles in the 
Reade Record with the "Hist, of the Reed 
Family," pub. 1861, which has been au- 
thority for most genealogists in tracing out 
the family lines, will show the value of the 
work already done. 

— That no genealogical student of the 
Reade lines can be sure that his work is 
correct unless he has examined the Reade 
Record. 

— That it is quite possible that it is your 
own particular line that has the benefit of 
this research. 

— That a financial report for the year 1922 
will be sent to each member after the annual 
meeting, Tuesday, Oct. 31, 1922. 

— That our members should note the splen- 
did bit of true poetry, "Creation," page 24. 

— That if they wish the services of the 
Secretary in other numbers of the Reade 
kecord they should make haste about it, for 
before long in the nature of things he will 
be called to fill an engagement to thrum a 
harp above or shovel coal below. See p. 21. 

— That the Secretary has in preparation 
for publication, "A Speculation Concerning 
the Origin of the Rede Family," that will 
surprise and entertain the Kin. More of 
this anon. 



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A REQUIEM 



George Sawin Stewart 



Genealogist Reade Society, 
follows : 



Lineage as 



Duncan 1 Stewart, b. Scotland, 1623. m. Apr., 
1654, Ipswich, Mass., Ann Winclrarst of 
Boston (b. 1647, and d. 9 July, 1729). He 
resided in Rowley. Mass., and d. 30 Aug., 
1717, thought to be 100 years of age. 

James-, res. Rowley. 

Solomon", res. Rowley. 

Daniel 4 , res. Salem, Lunenburg, Fitchburg. 

Amherst 5 , res. Lunenburg, Walpole, N.H., 
Browningtou, Vt. 

Thomas Carlisle 6 , res. Coventry, Vt., Brown- 
ingtou, Vt. 

John Brigham 7 , res. Brownington, Vt., Au- 
burndale, Mass. 

George Sawin 8 , b. Newton, Mass., 3 Mar., 
1870. Res. Auburndale, Concord, Water- 
town, and d. 17 Apr. , 1922. ; m. 3 Mar., 
1897, Alice Heckman, d. John Franklin and 
Anna W. (Currier) Heckman of Newton. 

Children : Margaret, John Heckman, Marion 
and Edward Amherst; 



Concerning the late Georf. S. Stewart, it 
can be said that he was a man of character, 
ability, education. •- and a gentleman. What 
more need be said of any man ? His demise 
was a sad blow to a wide circle of friends 
and acquaintances. He will long be remem- 
bered with kindly interest and affection by 
those fortunate enough to know him. His 
work as a genealogist was accurate and 
therefore trustworthy. His knowledge of 
the genealogical lines of the Read-Reed 
family was profound. It was indeed a great 
loss to the members of the Reade Society 
that his ardurous duties for others prevented 
his contributing of late to the columns 
of the Reade Record as in former years. 
But man proposes and fate disposes. 



Oh, Stewart, thou bonnie lad 
Wi' bluid o Scots that cours'd 
Thy veins, sair sad bee I 
That Fate hath called thee hence. 

Oh, gone thy earnest worde 
In friendship spoken, the smile 
That warmed the heart o' mee 
And made the daye seem faire. 

All haile, ye angels brighte ; 
Gie him the hand that tells 
O' endless welcome hame — 
And greet wi' harpe and song. 

Oh, God, graunt Thou my prayer. 
That Thy transcendant love 
Now rests on him with Thee ; 
At" peace his troubled soule. 

— A. H. R. 



WILLS AND BEQUESTS 

It seems to your Secretary that the Read 
Reed-Reid kin never die ; that it they do, 
they fail to write wills ; or if they write 
wills they strangely forget to make even 
small bequests to the Keade Society, in 
which they have so much interest. 

In all its eighteen years' existence, if such 
bequests have been made, your Secrerary 
has failed to hear of them. He is sure this 
lack of bequests is only an oversight on the 
part of our well-to-do members. To guard 
against such mistakes in the future, a legal 
form of bequest is given below, which any 
member can use when drawing up a will. 

And so shall ye be held in grateful re- 
membrance by all the kin. 

" I give, devise, and bequeath unto the Ri \i>k 
Society, a corporation duty existing under the 
laws of the Commonwealth of Massachu- 
setts, the sum of dollars 

[o>] the hereinafter described property, to wit; 



" REDE HOUSE" 

Ever heard of that ? I trow not. It exists 
only as a dream in your Secretary's mind. 
A liouse to be purchased in Boston. Head- 
quarters of the Kin. Installed, a genealo- 
gist working out the lines of kin. Library, 
portraits, pictures, heirlooms, mss., etc. 
Home of Reade Society. Dream can "come 
true" IF THE MEMBERS WILL IT. 
Discussion invited. 



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REEDS OF MARBLEHEAD 

Continued from pagt eleven 

£86. ls-8d "The Land in Marhlehead 
wth the house in wch the deceased lived 
and died in beinge in controversie be- 
tween Erasmus James Junior and Richard 
Reed" etc Among the debts of Erasmus 
James Senior is one to Richard Read 
of £2. 10s. 0. [Essex Co. Court Files] 
It would seem that it was soon after this 
that Richard Reed married Hester 
James. 

1660— Also Richard Read did condescend 
before us that Samuel Condie shall have 
the halfe and all of the said purchase he 
making pay for it according to agree- 
ment. 

Witness John Bartoll 

John Peach junior. 

[Mhd. T. Rec] 

1661. Dec. 18. Samuel Condye of Mar- 
hlehead in consideration of Five pounds 
conveys to John Brimblecome of the same 
town, "my part of Land which I have 
together in partnership with Richard 
Read, containing one acre be it more or 
less, being two acres in the whole, situate 
. . in Marhlehead aforesd. joyning to 
the Land of John Legg toward trie North, 
having the land of John Northy toward 
the West and a highway toward the 
East." [Essex Reg. Dee. Is | 

1662 Nov. 24. Richard Reads house noted 
as Eastward of Samuel Condy's land. 

1663 — December 9. Richard Reads land 
noted as adjoining that of John Brimble- 
comes. 

1665 — A sufficient carte way to be laid out 
to open John Brimblecomes land and 
Richard Reeds land & those so appointed 
[Mr Maverick — John Peach senior & 
John Peach junior] by the towne, shall 
lay out so much land to said Brimble- 
come and Reed again in another place 
etc. 

1665— "29.10.65 (29th Dec. 1665). "Jane 
James relict ©f Erasmus James late of 
Marhlehead deceased" .... [conveys] 
"house and one and one half acre which 
was sd. husbands in his life time [and 
was] sold to Richard Read of Marble- 
head, fisherman, but deceasing before any 
deed in writing was made". . . "is fully 
paid for by Richard Read" ... "I do 
hereby convey" etc "to the said Read" 
. . . "bounded with ye highway that goes 
down to ye harbor to ye North east — and 
a swamp laid out in small p'cells (parcels) 
to severall run to ye South East — and to 
ye South west or westerly to ye fence 
beyond the row of peach trees." 



1666. April 23d.— Francis Johnson con- 
veys land and dwelling house between 
that of Samuel Condy and Richard Read. 

1666 November 9. Francis Johnson of 
Marhlehead conveys the above mentioned 
land and house lying between that of 
Samuel Condye and Richard Read to 
George Corven. 

1669: 30: 4mo. [June], "Inventory of the 
estate of Jane James, taken by Mos'es 
Mavericke, John Peache, and Christopher 
Latimer." The house and ten acres of 
Land near the Ferry £40; the House in 
which she died with the land pertaining 
to itt £35; the land by the pound 
£5; the land by the commonage £5, 
total £85. It was mutually agreed in 
Court 30: 4 mo. 1669 by Erasmus James 
and Richard Read and Hester his wife, 
that the entire estate left by their mother 
Jane James be divided among them, the 
house and 10 acres at £40 to Erasmus, 
and the bouse and land at the ferry and 
ground by the pound at £40 to Hester and 
the cow commonage at £5. equally divided 
as well as all other estate remaining" 
[Essex Co. Court Files] 

1666— Feb. 8th. Att a town meeting, se- 
lectmen being chosen by a general towne 
meeting for the year ensuing [viz] John 
Devoin, Robert Knight, Samuel Morgan, 
Richard Read, Edm. (.alle. 

1669-70— Richard Read is "to pay unto 
the towne for his fishyard yerly thirty 
shillings which is for this 2 "years 69-70, 
and so to agree yerly with the selectmen." 

1670. February 22d. The following entry 
is of interest, as the names of Richard 
More — the last survivor of the Mayflower 
passengers — occurs with that of Richard 
Read. 

"Bee it known unto all men by these pres- 
ents that I Richard More of Salem, in 
ye County of Essex, marriner, for a val- 
uable consideration me. in hand paid by 
Thomas Pitman of Marhlehead, in ye 
county aforesaid, husbandman, have bar- 
gained and sold and doe by these presents 
bargain and sell" etc "to Thomas Pitman" 
etc a p'cll of land containing ten acres 
be it more or less scittuate and lying and 
being within ye bounds of Marhlehead 
aforesd. and is bounded with the South 
Harbor, leading to Salem Northerly,— the 
land of Richard Read Easterly — the land 
of Mr. Moses Maverick Westerly — the 
common land westerly etc. This interest- 
ing document is signed by Richard More, 
and a seal, also the mark of Christian 
More, and a seal : 

The Witnesses are John Price, Hilliard 
Veren senior — "ye said Richard More 



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and Christian More his wife signing seal- 
ing and delivering of this present 22-12 
mo. 1670" 

Capt. Richard More died and is buried in 
Salem, his grave being the only one of 
the "Mayflower" passengers that is ab- 
solutely certain of location. 

1674 in May. Morgan & Furbush convey 
Land to Richard Read. 

1674 April 15. The constables chosen this 
yeare were John Mariot and Richard 
Read. 

1675 February 29. According to Hulls 
Journal (King Philips War) under Cap- 
tain James Olivers Company Richard 
Read is credited with Two pounds and 
Nineteen Shillings. [For account of this 
war see above.] 

1677 April. Agreed with Richard Read 
to pay unto the Towne the sum of three 
pounds in money for the use of the land 
he makes his fish on for the yeares past 
and ten shillings more for this present 
yeare ten shillings money. 

1677/8 February 9. Will of Samuell Condy 
of Marblehead. 

Richard Read 

Mark of 

Samuell S. R. Reede 

Witnesses with others 

1682 December 22. "This bill brendeth me 
Richard Read fisherman to paie or caus 
to be paied to the selectmen of Marble- 
head the full and just sum of eight pounds 
in corrant money of New England at 
or before the 20th May next which is 
for the improvement of a parsell of the 
towne land from the year [16] 62 to this 
day which land is adjoyning to a stage 
built upon said land and for the true 
performance hereof I bind myself eaiers 
[heirs] and assigns firmly by this pres- 
ents : Witness my hand" 

[Witness] Richard Reed. 

John Pears 
John Legg. 

1682-Dec. 22. "At a meeting of the Select- 
men" etc. "they have agreed with Richard 
Reed as followeth : they have leased to 
Richard Read all that parsell of land that 
is now improved by him joyning to John 
Codner upon the South West the highway 
upon the Northwest, the Marsh of John 
Codner" etc . . . term of a hundred years 
and a day. 

[Autograph signature of Richard Reed. 

1683/4 March 18. Received of Richard 
Read-007-18-00. 



1687-8 March 10. Samuel Endecott of 
Boston and wife Hannah, Convey "for 
and in consideration of ye summ of Six- 
teen pounds" to Richard Read of Marble- 
head, "Catt & land [which] was granted 
to ye late worshipfull Jon Endicott Esq 
govenour of ye Mass. Colony of New 
England." At the request off or p'sent 
honoured governor Joh Endecott Esqr, the 
iland called Catta Hand, being about 
[Ninety?] two acors lying neere to Mar- 
ble Head, Shall & hereby is graunted to 
him, and his heires for evp'vided it be not 
goven to any town or p'son already." 
[Col. Rec Vol. II. p. 289] 

From Ipswich Registry of Deeds 
[1690 March 9.] 

'To all People To whom these presents 
shall come, greeting. Know yee that I 
Richard Reed of Marblehead In ye 
County of Essex in the Massachusetts 
Colony in New England for Divers good 
consideration moving me thereto I give, 
grant, aliene, enfeoff and confirme unto 
My Coveing son, Samuell Reed of Marble- 
head, my Dwelling houses, barnes & or- 
chard with three other Dwelling houses, 
two stages, Catt Island & fourtenn acre 
lotts all lying and being within ye bounds 
of Marblehead and all other, my land ly- 
ing within ye bounds of ye said Marble- 
head. Two acres and a halfe of Marsh 
lyeing in Salem bounds, one Ketch, Two 
Shallups and all my fish, with all the 
moveable estate within doors and without. 
Together with all rights and priveleges & 
appurtenances, whatso ever with ye same 
belonging in anywise, appurtaining. To 
have and to hold the above granted houses 
barnes, orchards, lands, medows, Ketch, 
Shallups fish and all other moveables above 
named . . . unto him ye above named 
Samuel Reed his hiers and assignes for 
ever. 

In Witness hereof I ye above named 
Richard Reed have hereunto sett my hand 
& seale, this fifteenth day of October in 
ye year of our Lord, one Thousand Six 
hundred and Ninety. 

Richard Reed & a Seale 

Signed Sealed & delivered in ye presence of 
Jonathan Remington 
John Nevinson. 

March 9. 1690/1 This Indenture is ac- 
knowledged by Richard Read to be his 
act & deed before Thomas Dan forth, 
Dept. Govenor. 

August 1691. Recorded by Thos. Wade 

Recorder. 



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Marblehead in Acer with Richard Reed 
Richard Reed is Dr. 

To Rent from his flakeyard from March. 
26- [16] 83 to March 26-84 att an annual 
Rent of 201. as appears foloi 17- 

01. 00.00. 

01.00.00. 

26. March [16] 84 to 

h 26, [16] 85 1.00.00 

March 26, [1<>] 86 1.00.00 

.March 26, [16] 87 1.00.00 

March 26, [lo] 88 1.00.00 

March 26, [16] 89 1.00.00 

h 26, [16] 90 1.00.00 

March Jo, [16] 91 1.00.00 

To Rent from March 26, 91 to May 26, 95 
@ 20^ annum 04.00.00 

1896 do 01.0 

1897 do 01.00.1 i) 

1898 do 01 00 

Cr. 15.00.00 

For money pd. James Dennis for ye year 

ins.; 01 00 

For sum to Fr. Wood 01 

For money paid Cap. Legg OlM 00 

For money paid Cap. Legg 6.1.0.00 

Ap. 1695 ISy money Received of 
Ri haul Reed for the lease of his 
fish n.im John Legg. 

Which is in full for the time past 

[to 1695] 05.00.00 

1698 April 18 — "Att a meeting of the pro- 
prietors and Comrs leagally warned att 
Marblehead Aprill 18, 1698— Whereas 
complaint was made that Richard Reedd 
was backwards and in arrears of Rent for 
the fish fence leased unto him in the 
yeai of our Lord one thousand six hun- 
dred eightie and two. Three whole year 
which amount unto the sume of Three 
pounds. Upon consideration of the same 
and off [of] the sd. Richard Reed Latte 
losses and his age, upon his request itt 
was Votted — That if hee payde down Two 
pounds in monie now, that hee should bee 
abated the other Twenty shillings which 
was accordingly done : And upon his 
farther request a new agreement was 
made with him, and votted by the sd. 
commisers and proprietors in Meeting. 
That (since his former lease made in 
1682, is forfietted for not payment as 
therein is contained) that hee shall never- 
theless continue to injoye that parcell of 
land which now i^ a fish fence and im- 
ployed by him joyning to John Codners 
orchard" etc. 

1698 Apr. 18. It was acknowledged by Mr. 
Richard Reed that the above lease is for- 
feitted by Reason of Non payment as is 
therein mentioned. 

Ambrose Gale 
Clerk. 



1700 April 1. Lease of land to Mr. Samuell 
Reedd for forty years of a parcel of 
land adjoining Mr. John Codners orchard 
commonly called the old Fish fence, which 
his late Father leased" etc 

[signed] "Sam'll Reed." 
John Browne 
town clerk. 

So ends the Story of Richard Reeds life 
so far as maybe known. The exact date 
of his decease is unknown but it is evident 
that it occurred between 18 April 1698 and 
1, Apr. 1700. 

The date of decease of Esther James his 
wife is also unknown but probably was 
prior to -March 9, 1690, the date of Rich- 
ards deed to son Samuel, which has no 
i lure of wife, which should have been 
attached had she been then living. 

SAMUEL' REED IV-1661-1718 

Inn holder Read List No. 39 

"Sign of the Dragon" 

From Marblehead Records and Essex Co. 
Is we have the following 
items : 

Samuel" Reed (2d) was born 1st October 
1661. lie died 4. December 1718 aged 
57 years 2 months and three days. 

He married (1) 17 April 1684 Abigail Row- 
land dau. of Richard of Marblehead. 
She deposed in 1684 as being about 20 
years of age. In 168S Richard Rowland 
"Senr." by Will gives daughter Abigial 
Reed (and Read) his "part of the Hum- 
phrey farm." She died . 

He m. (2) 11. Dec. 1692. Mary Bridges 
[Lynn V,; Statist.] 

Their Children were: 
1— John 3 bp. 10 June 1694. 
"John Read. Hanah Beaney of Salem 
(m) 13 June 1721" [Mhd.Rec] 

II— Mary 3 bp. 20 Oct. 1695, d. 14. Jan. 1712- 
13 (in her 18th year) [Mhd. Rec] 

III— Prudence 3 bp. 2. Jan. 1697. 
"Mary Reed & Samuell Roles (m.) Nov 
30, 1738." [Mhd. Rec] 
"Mary Read & Ebenezer Lovel (m.) May 
1, 1731." [Mhd. Rec:] in Isaac Turner— 
and had "Reed, eldest son of Isaac & 
Prudence b. April 3. 1717" 
Prudence m. Isaac [Turner] d. Apr. 4. 
1717 (in her 20th year.) 

IV— Samuel 3 bp. 20 July 1701 [Mhd. Rec] 
Sam'll Read & Martha Tyler (m) Aug 18. 
1725 [Corns. Rep. Boston Vol. 28. p 128] 



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Settlement of Estate 
Inventory & Adm. of Estate of Sam'l 

Reed of Marblehead — Essex Ss. Ipswich 
Oct 30, 1722. 

"By ye Reall [Estate] as pr In- 
ventory 1950.00.00 

"By ye p'sonall [Estate] as p ditto 117.02.00 

"By Debts Received p. exor as p. 

"By Debts Received p. exor as p. 251.09.10 

Particulars on file 

368.11.10 

"The Said Estate Dr. 

To Sundry credittors as pr. list 
on file on most payd as p. Re- 
ceipt Examined — amounts to... 956.11.10 

"Allowed the Executrix for her 
Time & Trouble In paying to 
the severall creditors which 
amount by particulars to 588" 
which by ordinary commissions 
makes 30.00.00 

"Shee making no charge only to 
children for yr, education 

To Stateing & Allowing ye account 00.10.00 

"To Recording of Creditts, Ex- 
amining ye receipts &C 00.18.0 

To petition & Certificate to ye Su- 
perior Court To Sell Lands. . . 00.08.0 

To Quietus 32.00.0 

The above sd. account examined 
and allowed 956.11.11 

Octobr 31, 1722 988.11.11 

pr. John Appleton 
[Judge of Probate] 

1725 June 14 — . . . "I, Richard Read a 
minor under the age of twenty years son 
of Samuel Read late of Marblehead de- 
ceased has nominated and chosen . . 
my father in Law [Stepfather] Nicholas 
Andrews of Marblehead aforsd my 
guardian, to take care of my interest and 
act for me in all things . . . until I arrive 
to ye age of twenty one or choose & ap- 
point another" .... [Signed] Richard 
Reed 

Witnessed by 
Bridges Reed 
George Hughes 

1725 July 3d . . . Nicholas Andrews 
nominated and allowed to be guardian 
unto Mary Reed, a Minor of about 
Twelve years of age — Daughter of Sam- 
uel Reed late of Marblehead in the County 
of Essex, Innholder deceased" 
From the above it will be seen that two 
of the children of Samuel (2) Reed 
(Richard & Mary) were still minors in 
1725 and that Mary the widow had mar- 
ried (2) Nicholas Andrews. Innholder. 
So we may take it that they continued 
Samuels old business at the old Stand. 
"The Sign of the Dragon" 



That the Inn kept under this name by 
one of the Deeds of Marblehead as late as 
1744 was well furnished and of some pre- 
tentions may be found from the travels of 
Dr. Alexander Hamilton of Annapolis Md. 
who rode through New England at above 
date. He was accompanied by a negro ser- 
vant and on a Sunday morning at Marble- 
head in asking for portmanteau "I was 
told by my man Dromio that it was in his 
room. I had the curiosity to go & see what 
kind of a room his room was, and upon a 
reconnoitre found it a most spacious one, 
furnished a la mode de Cabaret, with ta- 
bles, chairs, a fine feather-bed with quilted 
counterpane, white calico canopy or tester, 
and curtains every way adapted for a gen- 
tlemen of his degree and complexion." 

If the negro servant was given so well 
furnished a chamber we may infer that 
the furnishings of Dr. Hamiltons Chamber 
at "The Sign of the Dragon" were even 
more sumptuously furnished at that period. 

Thus Endeth our story of Samuel 2 Reed, 
Innholder at Marblehead. 

BENJAMIN 2 REED V. ["1665"] 1700. 

Concerning this townsman there has not 
been found so far a single item of informa- 
tion in the Marblehead Records, or other- 
wise, than in the administration of his es- 
tate. What his occupation, or life, or where 
he spent his time, is as yet unknown, but 
that he was a Marblehead towns man, & Son 
of Richard the Elder & brother of Samuel 2 
is established beyond question. Nor is there 
record to show that he had either wife or 
children. Had he lived & died in Marble- 
head it seems incredible that some mention 
of him would not have been found there. 
The following is taken from Essex County 
Probate Records. "Bond of Administation 
of Estate of Benjamin Read late of Marble- 
head deceased, 1700 November 2 — No. 
23.353." [Endorsed] "Sam 11 Read & Surety 
Bond adm. con 1700 — " "Know All Men by 
these presents, That we Sam 11 Read of Mar- 
blehead and Joseph Gold and Benj Picker- 
ing Both of Salem all Vf" in Said County 
of Essex" etc. "Stand firmly bound" etc 
"in the full sum of ffifety pounds" etc. 

Dated "2" J Day of November 1700." etc. 
The Condition of this present Obligation is 
such That if the above bounden Sam 11 Read 
adm. r of all and Singular ye goods, that by 
Rights & credits of his Brother Benj a Read 
late of Marblehead Dec ed Intestate" etc 

[Signed] Sam 11 Reed [& a Seal] 
Joseph Goold [&a Seal] 
Benjamin Pickering [&a Seal] 
[Witnesses.] 

John Higginson 

Hannah Higginson. 
Note — No inventory seems to have been 
filed or other papers concerning the adminis- 
tration now existent. 



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THE KEADE RECORD 



Capt. WILLIAM READ OF BOSTON 

MERCHANT - MARINER 



By Alanson 
(fead List 

Very little indeed is known concerning 
this interesting immigrant. It will be seen 
by the following account and that on p. 3 
and p. 21 of this Record that he certainly 
was not ancestor of the "Reeds of Marble- 
head" as stated in the "Hist. Reed Fain." 
1861 pp. 41-46. 

Capt. William was b. prob. in England 
abt. 1631 and died at sea 1667. 

Hem. wid. Hannah (Wiswall) Mannings 
abt. 1661, dau. of Deacon John Wiswall 
senior, iron monger & general trader, of 
Boston who had remov. from Dorchester. 
She was b. abt. 1635. (Estimate from her 
1st Marriage) Hannah Wiswall m. (1) 
in 1656 Mahalaleel Munnings of Dorchester 
who soon remov. to Boston. Had Hannah b. 
23. Sept. 1659 [Savage] 

Mahalaleel b. . . . d. 22. Nov. 1659. 

Mahitabel b. 22. Jan. 1659. 

He was drowned 27 Nov. 1659 [Bost. T. 
Rec] 

Admin, of his estate was granted 28 Feb. 
1659 "unto Flannah ye Relict of the late 
Mahalaleel Munnings and John Wiswall 
her Father they bringing an Inventory of 
ye estate." etc This was presented in Court 
30 Jan. 1660. Amounting to £873. [Suff. Co. 
Files & Prob.] His estate was insolvent. 
His daughter Hannah m. Josiah Willis 
[Savage] 

Wid. Hannah Wiswadl-Munnings m. 
(2) abt. 1661. Capt. William Read, of Boston. 
Had Son William b. 26 March 1665. 

At his decease in 1667 (evidently at sea in 
the administration of his estate an inventory 
was taken the 23: Sept. 1667. Filed in Suf- 
folk Co. Prob. Court by John Wiswall ju- 
nior (Hannahs brother) 28. Nov. 1667. (see 
below). 

Wid. Hannah Wiswall-Munnings- 
Read m. (3) Thomas Overman of Boston. 

He was freeman 1671, & d. before 

1675. [Savage] Neither Boston nor Dor- 
chester Records show entries concerning the 



H. Reed 

No. 25) 

birth of Hannah Wiswall nor of the above 
marriages. Her father John Wiswalls will 
in 1687 mentions his daughter Hannah Over- 
man and "land that was some time her hus- 
bands." 

A letter of Administration was granted 5 
June 1694 "to Mathew Johnson of Woburn 
on the Estate of Hannah Overman late of 
Boston widow, deceased intestate." 

"An Inventory of the Estate of Hannah 
Overman of Boston dece d in March 1689 
and widow and Relict of Thomas Overman, 
was presented in court by the administrator, 
to the value of £.60.12.8. in personal effects 
with Funeral charges of £10 12.9. No rec- 
ord is had of any heir or of the distribution 
of the property. 

INVENTORY OF WILLIAM REED 

Suff. Prob. Vol. 5-70 
The Inventory of Certaine Goods which 
did belong unto William Read late of Bos- 
on in the County of Suffclke New England 
deceased. Taken the : 23 : of September 
667. Measured & prized by us whose 
names are hereunder written. 

Imprs : 4 yards of sad Coulered 
broad cloathe at 9s. L yard £001.16. 
t. 10 yards 24 of Irish prize at 22d. 

p. yard 000.19.8^ 

. 29 yards of Irish prize at 18d. 002.03.6 
. 8 yards }i of plane white prize 

16d 000.11.8 

. 20 : yards of gray prize at 20d L 

yard 001.6.8 

. 10 yards of white prize at 16d 

L yard 000.13.4 

. 32 yards of white prize at 18d 

y yd 002.08.4 

. 6 yards of white prize at 18d 

L yd 000.09.4 

5 yards of black prize at 20s. y 

yd 000.10.4 

20 yards of gray prize at 22d 

p. yd 001.16.8 

. 231/2 yards of gray prize at 22d 

p. yd 002.03.1 

. 6 yards of Linsy woolsy at 20d. 

p. yd 000.12.1 

. 6 yards of Linsy woolsey at 20s 

p. yard 000.12.00 



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it. liy 2 yards of gray prize at 16d. 

000.15.04 
It. 13 : yards of gray prize at 18d 000.19. 
It. 1 1 J< yards of gray prize at 20d. 

L yd 000.19.02 

It. 8: yards of gray prize at 32d 

L yard 000.14.08 

It. 11. Yi yards plane gray at 22d p. 

yd 001.01.01 

It. 24 vards of white blanket at 15d. 

p. yard 001.10. 

It. 2 doz of small gray Stocks at 20d. 

p. pr 002.00.00 

It. 4 pare of womens Shoes at 30d 

L pr 000.12.00 

It. 33 yards of white freize at 18d. 

p." yd 002.09.6 

It. 8 : yards of black prize at 22d p. 

yd OO0.17.4 

It. a black prize Coate made .. 000.14. 
It. an old Stuft dublet & briches 00.05.8 

It. a cloathe suite & Coate 002.10. 

It. a broad cloath dublet & britches 

black, & 2 black Coates . . . 002.10. 
It. a prize Coate black & one old 

Cloath Coate foulered .... 000.12. 

It. a red wascoate 000.06. 

It. a light Coalered Searge Hanging 

Coate 001.00. 

It. 2 pair of old stockins 000.03 

It. an old small greene Rug & Small 

bed 000.08. 

It. 2 pr. of sheets 001.10. 

It. 4 pillow beers 000.10. 

It. 3 shirts 9s ; 3 neck cloath & one 

handkercher 4 000.13. 

It. 3 pr. of Course drawers .... 000.00. 

It. an old set bed & pillows 000.26. 

It. a parcell of greene glass ... 001.00.00 
It. a quadron forstaffe uaines (?)00O.18 

It. a set of letter & figures 000 02.06 

It. an old chest 000.02.06 

It. 3 doz. Compas Boxes 000.12. 

It. a parcell of old tooles in the 

house & Shop 003.00. 

It. his part of the Ketch when she 

went out 050. 

some totall 096.12.07 
L. me ffrom: Johnson 

L. me Thomas Dare (Dewer) 
(verte) [turn the page] 

Att a meeting of the Govr. 

Major Genrall & Recover 

in Boston 28. of November : 1667 

John Wiswell Junior deposed, that this is 
a true Inventory of the Estate of the late 

William Read to the best of his Knowl- 
edge, that when he knows more hee shall 
discover it 

Edw. Rawson, Recorder. 



The first known item concerning Capt. 
William Read is found in his signature to 
a "Petion of Loyalty to the honoured Gen- 
erall Court now assembled and sitting in 
Boston in New England." May 1665 by some 
100 Non-Freeman, i.e. those who by reason 
of nut being members of the puritan Church 
were not eligible to vote or hold office. 
Criticism of these conditions was being ex- 
pressed & the authorities evidently felt the 
need of prompting the non-freemen to ex- 
press their satisfaction & loyalty in some 
such form as this Petition. It is a unique 
document as it relates to a large number of 
Bostons inhabitants, most if not all of them, 
original immigrants who had not attained 
the dignity of voters. Thousands of their 
descendants are scattered throughout the 
United States in this year of 1922 It is 
hoped the Reade Record may be able some 
day to print this Petition and Names in 
full. Just above the fine, bold signature of 
"Will. Read" is that of "John- Wiswall 
jun r ," his brother-in-law, who later adminis- 
ters on Williams Estate as noted above. 

The Inventory above in Vol. 5. p. 70 Suff. 
Co. Probates is the only article preserved 
concerning the administration, & even that 
is not in full, as at bottom is the word 
"verte" — "turnover," and what was on the 
next page we are left to conjecture, as it 
was not copied. From the nature of the 
articles noted in the inventory it is evident 
Wil'iam was a trader as well as a seaman, 
& this is borne out by the Mention at the 
end of "the house & Shop." This evidently 
was a leased premise otherwise it would 
have had a valuation placed on it. The 
Statement in the "Hist Reed Fam." p. 42. 
That "An Inventory of his Estate was taken 
Sept 23, 1667 in the schedule of which was 
real Estate at the North End and in King 
Street (now State Street)" is thus shown 
to be without foundation, so far as owner- 
ship is concerned, & it is not known where 
the leased "house & shop" was located. 

Capt. Williams personal Wardrobe noted 
in the inventory beginning with "a black 
prize coate made" [? tailored] ending with 
"3 pr. Course drawers" seems fairly ample," 
for a man of his station although the men- 
tion of "One handkercher" only, at a shil- 
ling valuation may seem odd to our mem- 



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bers. But the writer does not remember to 
have seen even one before in other inven- 
tories so this may be taken to indicate Capt. 
William was some what of a dandy in his 
dress! The "small greene rug & small bed, 
2 pr sheets & 4 pillow beers" [cases] evi- 
dently belong to the house furnishings and 
indicate small living guarters, although the 
"Old sea bed & pillows" may have furnished 
"a den" for the Captain when at home & 
his bunk on the Ketch when at sea. But 
it seems strange that there is nothing in this 
inventory that shows he was a man of fam- 
ily — with a wife & at least one child, living 
at time of his decease, as shown above. 
So far as the Inventory alone is concerned 
it might well be said he was an unmarried 
Man. The word "house" is the sole implica- 
tion of a family relation. But the item of 
greatest interest is the mention of "his part 
of the Ketch when she went out — i'50." 
The "Hist. Reed Fam." 1861 States " He 
[Capt. William] died on his homeward pas- 
sage from Ireland, on board the Ketch "Wil- 
liam and Mary," of which he was part 
owner." A Ketch is, "A small strongly 
built, two masted vessel usually of from 
100 to 250 tons burden, but sometime of less. 
Ketches were formerly much used as 
bomb-vessels the peculiarity of the rig af- 
fording ample space forward of the Main 
Mast and at the greatest beam." 



"Joseph Grafton set sail from Salem the 
2d day in the morning in a Ketch of about 
forty tons (three men and a boy in her)." 
— Winthop Hi:,t. New Eng. 1. -X II 

[Century D,ct.] 

It would be interesting to know where the 
author of the "Hist. Reed Fam." obtained 
the name "William & Mary" as that of Capt. 
Williams Ketch. A mistake, if as seems 
possible it was a name sake of King Wil- 
liam & Queen Mary of England who did not 
ascend the throne until 16S9. It is also 
probable that he inferred from the quantity 
of "Irish Frize" mentioned in the Inventory 
that Capt. William had been to Ireland to 
buy it and so "died on his homeward pas- 
sage" in 1667. But as a matter of fact that 
stock of goods was safe and sound at home 
in the "house & Shop" where those who 
made the inventory found & prized it after 
the Ketch "went out" doubtless from Bos- 
ton, her home port, with Capt. William, & 
so perished — perhaps with all her crew. The 
inventory provokes us from the small in- 
formation it affords as to details. Evidently 
the Ketch was outward bound on another 
trading venture, unconnected with the "Irish 
Frize" & goods at home. Perhaps future 
search among the Marine Records & Courts 
may throw some light on the subject. 

Note— Regarding William' b. 26 March 
1665 [Bost. T. Rec] Son of Capt. William 
the records show nothing further and as he 
is not mentioned in the probate proceedings 
of his Mother Hannah in 1694 above it is 
probable he died young. But this needs 
further investigation. 



EARLIEST OE THE KIN IN NEW ENGLAND 



Thomas Read of Salem, the Plan i h k. 
Read List Xo. 6 

Mentioned in the jury proceedings con- 
cerning the death of Austen Botcher, 28 
Sept., 1630; (Recs. Mass. Bay. Col., V. 1-78) 
(Pope's Pioneers, p. 380). It is evident he 
came in Winthrop's great fleet of that year. 
Thomas was not a member of the Church of 
Salem, and for that reason could not be made 
a freeman (voter) or hold any public office. 
This explaius why the names of his four 
older children fail to appear on the Church 
baptismal records. 10 Apr., 1639, Tho : 
Read was acknowledged an inhabitant, 
and not as a freeman. Hence Pope's mis- 
take in mention of him as such in lb34. 
Nor did he have a military title at any time. 
The 8alem Reads are descendants of this 
Thomas. (Reade Rec. No. VI.) He was the 
earliest of the kin in America, except James 
Read of Virginia, who came in 1607 (Rec. 
No. VI) with Capt. John Smith. 



Thomas Rrade. oe Wickford, (Eng.) and 



Salem, Mass. 



Read List No. 1. 



Made a freeman 1 Apr., 1634 (Mass. Bay 
Col. 1-368). This is the first mention of 
him so far found in any New Eng. recoid. 
In the "Index of Kreemen," 1631-1641. there 
is but one Thomas Read noted, so it must 
be he of the military titles.) Vol. 1, 477). 

1 Apr., 1634, he contributed XX s to the 
building of the Sea Fori at Boston (p 191). 

1636 was granted a 300 acre farm at Salpm, 
He was ensign March, 1637, Captain, Feb.. 
1646-7. Returned to England, 1647-8, and 
received a Lieutenant-Colonel's commission 
in Oliver Cromwell's army. 

He married in England and all his chil- 
dren were born there. He left no descend- 
ants in America an stated in the "Hist. 
Read Fam," 1861, (p. 47)( Nor did he come 
with Winthrop in 1630. Recent investigation 
proves the contrary. 



THE REAUE RECORD 



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LINEAGE OF ALANSON HENRY REED 

Secretary of the Reade Society 



Thomas Read, of Colchester, Essex Co., 
England, carpenter, born abt. 1595; will 
prov . 1665; m. abt. 1618 Rachel (maiden 
name unknown, born abt. 1598. (See Keade 
Record Nos. X and XII.) 

1 - Thomas 1 (s. of Thomas above) bp. 19 

Oct., 1627, iu Colch. ; in Sudbury, Mass., 
1654 5, and d. 13 Sept., 1701 ; a carpenter; 
m. (1) abt. 16+S, Katharine (maiden name 
unknown), d. 26 Sept., 1677, Sudbury. 

2 - Thomas Jr. 2 , b. abt. 1649; d. Ox- 

ford, Mass.; alive in 1733; husbandman 
and only son; in,, 30 May, 1677, Mary, 
dau. John Goodrich, of Wethersfield, 
Conn. She b. 1650, d. 1724, Sudbury. 

3 - Thomas, 3 b. 22 Mar., 1678, Sudbury; d. 

1 May, 1755; a farmer; m. (1) 1 Dec, 
1701, Mary (Bigelow) Bruce, wid. of 
David of Marlboro, and dau. of John, 
Bigelow, of Watertown. Sheb. 12 Sept., 
1677, andd. 21 Feb.. 1707. 

4 - Nathaniel, 4 b. 6 Oct., 1702, Sudbury; 

d. 9 June, 1785, Western (now Warren); 
innkeeper and landowner ; Capt. French 
& Indian Wars; m. (int.) 2 Nov., 1729, 
Pheby, dau. of Jonathan Lamb of Fram- 
ingham and Leicester, d 10 Sept., 1788. 

5 - Reuben, 5 b. 2 Nov., 1730, Brookfield ; d, 

26 May, 1803, Western (now Warren); 
a school teacher ; major in war of the 
Revolution; m. (int.) 3 Nov., 1754, Tam- 
ma, dau. of Ichabod Meacham of En- 
field, Conn.; she b. 2 Feb., 1732. d 16 
Feb., 1811. 

6 - Reuben, 6 b. 20 Jan., 1756, andd. 24 Oct., 

1817 Warren ; a farmer ; m. 17 June, 
1779, Hannah, dau. of Oliver Cheney, of 
Pomfret, Conn. She b 14 March, 1753; 
d. 27 Feb., 1833. 



6 - Nathaniel, 6 b. 4 Apr., 1762, (bro. of 

Reuben, No 6 above), Warren ; remov. 
in 1800 to Cambridge, Vt.; d. 22 Feb., 
1866; m. Anna, dau. Col. Danforth 
Keves, of Warren; she b. 25 Nov. 1752. 
d. 23 Aug., 1844. 

7 - Rensalaer, 7 (so!i Nathaniel, No. 6) b. 10 

1784, Warren; d. 22 Feb.. 1866, Cam- 
bridge, Vt. ; farmer; captain, War of 
1812; m. (Ill Sept., 1809, Anna So- 
phia, dau. Col. Silas Hazeltine, Fair- 
field, Vt. b. Mch., 1790; d. 23 Apr., 
1824. 

7 - Daniel" (son of Reuben, No. 6 above), b. 

19 Dec, 1781, Warren; d. 17 Dec, 1843 ; 
m. 14 Apr., 1803, Nancv, dau. Michael 
Smith, of West Brookfield; she b. 7 
July, 1785; d. 11 Nov., 1848. 

8 - Hannah B.\KER 8 (dau. Rensalaer above), 

b. 13 Feb., 1818, Fairfield, Vt.; d. 2 
Feb., 1877, Hinsdale, 111.; m. 28 Jan., 
1839, Alanson Reed, of Boston, Mass. 
(See below.) 

8 -Alanson 8 (son Daniel) b. 13 Nov., 1814. 
Warren; d. 25 Feb.. 1893, Chicago, 111, 
m. 2 Jan., 1839, Cambridge, Vt., Hannah 
(Baker) Read, dau. Rensalaer above. 
Removed from Boston to Chilcothe, O., 
1842; to Columbus, 1843; St. Louis, 
1S59; Chicago, 1861. 

8 - Alanson Henry, 9 b. 1 Mar., 1841, Bos- 
ton, Mass.; res. Columbus, O., 1843-59; 
St. Louis, 1859-60; Chicago, 1861-1901. 
WeUesley Hills, Mass., 1902-22. m, 1 
Dec. 1869, Flora Evelyn, dau. Rez.m and 
Rhoda (Fuller) Lancaster, of Chicago. 
She b. 10 Oct., 1849, Henry, Illinois, 
d. 7 Sept., 1922, Wellesley Hills, Ma>s. 



JOHN READ OF REHOBOTH 



(Read List No. 6) 



William Aspixwall was Recorder of 
Suffolk County Court from Nov 13. 1644 
to Oct 14/23 1651. In his "Notarial Rec- 
ords" pub. by the Boston Commissioners, 
many interesting Notes are made of the men 
& business of that time. The following 
referes to John of Rehoboth, who at this 
date was living in Braintree. [see R. Rec. 
No. V.] "1645-27-(9) A tre [letter] of At- 
turney Genrall from John Reade of Brain- 
tree & Sarah his wife the daughter of Will 



Lessie of Blyborough in Suffolkc [England] 
to Receive all debts, duties, gifts, Legacie 
due to either of them from any p'son or 
p'sons wch tre of Atturney was made to 
Mr. Win. Tyng of Boston, Resident in Lon- 
don, wth power to Substitute one Atturney 
or move with like or limited power & p'ticu- 
lerly was expressed a gift given by William 
Lessie Aforesaid to his Daughter Sarah." 
Witnesses Thomas Dighton & 
Thomas Wllmot. 



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THE READE RECORD 



RICHARD 1 READ OF BOSTON, 1682 - 1700 

By Alan son H. Reed 

(Read List No. 36) 

Concerning this inhabitant, his genealogi- The Will of John Walker— 1678. Be- 

cal lines have not heretofore been traced, so queaths "unto my executrix [wife Hannah] 

it _ . , ,,-, ., all mv Estate [real and personal] upon the 

.t is proper to give them place here. \\ hether cons 4 ration of Mamtam.ng my dear 

or not an immigrant is at present unknown. daughter Hannah until she shall come oi 

The first items of information come in the age or be .Married which shall come firsl 

wing entries on the Boston Records & then m to be equally devided be- 

° n mv wife and childe . . . Date lo Dec 

(.v o1 - 9 ) prov. Feb. li 

"1682 Aug 3— Francis Johnson and George 
Monke became securities to the town for Inventory— Nov 8, 1679 

o Reade, that lately came from Household goods, el 

ice [R I.?] and any of his." [p. x x x x x x x 5 

71] It. two Bibles and a psalme booke.. .6 

"1685 May 25—William 1 , wedged pickaxes, X 

,n leer Richard Read 1(1 

and his family lp. 77J It ,.„ n)an tha , uas boug h t 

"1687 Mary of Richard and Johanna l: - his part & Interest in the Brick- 

born March 26." [p. 1/0] . - v:iri1 , ; • ■ • • • ■••"••• m0Q 

It. a House Standing not finished 

1700 Tax List — "with Abatements for poor as it now Standeth with the land 

! ieople." [p. 94] that belongs to it 100.00 

Wid. [Johana] Read taxed— abatement— [Sufi. Co. Prob. Rec] 

1702— Tax List "Rich. 8 Read [i Deed of Sale Loi \ting Probable Home 

not found" of John & Hannah Walker, Senior. 
It is evident from this that Richard died ... _ . . , -.,,-. c 

prior to 1700 but we have no information as . *™; Pen " of Brantrey in the County of 

to the date of his decease nor that of his Suffolk . . . or the sum oi one hind. 

widdow lohanna. There is no evidence that '^elve pounds ( pd.) by Samuel 1 eacock oi 

he ever became "a freeman," that is a mem- Boston - Conveys- All that my me 

ber of the Church, a voter & townsman. £ lcem.-ut-bciiig m Boston near the 

Nor have we the names, births & baptisms S ° uth f rlv . L '" 1 ul llle S , K r ° wn wlth al J 

of their children except as we may infer * e 'and thereunto belonging-bounded 

from later entries in the Boston Records. Easterly by the Street that leads toward 

Roxbury [ ] Southerly by 

Richard Read & Hannah Walker. *? \' in '}. " f H an " ah Walker [widdow of 

John], Westerly by ye town Common or 

1705 May 21 we find by reference to these Training ffeild. Northerly by the Land of 

records was the date of the marriage of Fearenot Shaw"— "Measuring in breadth at 

Richard and Hannah (Vol. 28 Comr. Re- the Front from the Land of the sd. Han- 

ports.) and April 25, 1677 the date of nah Walker, by tha-sd. street to the Land 

Hannahs birth so that at time of her mar- of the said Shaw"— 10. Nov. 1681. 

riage she was about 22 years of age. If (Suff. Co. Reg. Deeds) 

we take it that Richard was some 3 years w, ,-„,,,,,• .x,„ «.„„,.„ T „ [m o 

, , u i i i .i ■ i - 1 kichard and Hannah lusher. 

older that would place his birth in 16/4. 

This with his name Richard justifies the Their marrieg noted in the Boston Rec- 

belief that he was son of the Elder Rich- ords 13. Jan. 1735 probably relates to that 

ard above since he is known to have had Richard 3 born 26, aug 1708, son of Richard" 

a family when he came to Boston in 1082, & Hannah (Walker) Read. It would be in- 

& was the only inhabitant bearing that teresting to know if they have descendants 

name. That there were other children of living. Boston records show no births or 

Richard & Johanna we may well believe. baptisms of children, so it is probable they 

[See also Savage] removed to other location. The matter needs 

Richard 3 and Hannah (Walker) Read. ( urther i? ve ,^ a J io , n - . tj „ 1Q ~ w 

n , ■, , ■ ■ n , \A „ t>' ., i Note — The Hist Reed Fam, 1861. Wrong- 

Children b. m Boston. (Com. Rep. Vol. , y states (p 4S) that R ^ ardl Read ^ 

28). Esther 3 b. 15 Feb. 1705, Richard 3 b. 26. elder was son of Capt. William Read of 

Aug. 1708, Hannah 3 b. 17 June 1711. Boston. (For correction see pp. 18, 19, 20.) 



THE READE RECORD 



23 



MISTAKES IN THE "HISTORY OF THE 
REED FAMILY" 

(By Jacob W. Reed. 1861) 
REGARDING CAPT. WILLIAM READ, OF BOSTON -- 1667 

By ALANSO.V H. REED 



Concerning this Puritan emigrant and 
his family, it would seem impossible to 
make more mistakes in two pages of 
print than occur in the account given 
in the History of the Reed Family, in 
pp. 41 and 42. 

First •• is the statement that he was 
the son of Richard Read of Whittlesey 
in the County of Kent (England). There 
is not the slightest evidence that such 
was the case, or that Richard had any 
descendant who emigrated to New Eng- 
land at an early date. 

Second -The statement that William 
came to America with Gov. Winthrop 
in 1630, or about that time, and settled 
first in Weymouth, but removed to Bos- 
ton." It is evident that Mr. J.W. Reed 
here confuses that well-known William 
Read who came from Batcombe, Eng- 
land, in 1635 (see Hottens Lists) to 
Weymouth in New England, but re- 
moved to Boston about 1646, as the 
Town Records show. This immigrant 
brought with him wife Susanna and two 
young children, Hannah and Susanna. 
(See Reade Record No. X.) 

Third - It will therefore be seen that 
the statement that Capt. William had 
a wife, Susan by name is incorrect. 
Nor did he have a second wife. 

Fourth -The statement that he had 
sons, "Edward, born 1618; John, 1620; 
Samuel, 1624; (and that) these three 
settled in Marblehead," is not correct so 
far as concerns kinship to William of 
Boston. They were, however, residents 
of the Town of Marblehead, but the 
dates of birth are wrong. (See p. 3.) 

Fifth -The statement that William 
had a daughter Margaret, who married 
Richard Stubbs of Hull, 3 March, 1658. 
is incorrect. She was the daughter of 
William of Batcombe, Weymouth, and 
Boston. (See Record No. X.) 



Sixth - The statement that William 
of Boston had a son Richard who set- 
tled in Marblehead, is incorrect so far 
as kinship is concerned. For an account 
of this Richard see page 22. 

Seventh - The statement that Wil- 
liam had a daughter, " Susanna, who 
married Samuel Smith, 13 Dec, 1759," 
is incorrect so far as kinship is con- 
cerned. She was in fact a daughter of 
William of Batcombe and Boston, i 
Record No. X). 

Eighth - The statement that William 
had a daughter Esther who married 
John Cann, 30 July, 1681, is incorrect 
so far as kinship is concerned. She was 
the daughter of William of Batcombe. 
(See Record No. X.) 

Ninth - The statement (p. 42) that 
Samuel Reed, a proprietor of land in 
Marblehead pievious to 1773, was a son 
of Capt. William Read of Boston, is in- 
correct, as shown by the account of the 
'Reeds of Marblehead," p. 3. Samuel 
was brother of Benjamin, and both were 
sons of Richard the elder. 

I'kniii -The statement (page 45) 
that the Richard there named was the 
son of Capt. William Read of Boston, is 
incorrect. (See p. 22.) 

Eleventh - The statements (pp. 42 
and 46) that William had a son Chris- 
topher, who was a tanner in Charles- 
town, is incorrect. (See page 1-8 and 
note, page 20. and Records Nos. XII 
and XIII). 

Twelfth -The statement (page 46) 
that William had a son John, of Mar- 
blehead is incorrect. It probably re- 
lates to that John 3 , bp. 1694, son of 
Samuel 2 (see page 16), as the Mhd. 
Records make no mention of a John of 
earlier date. Certainly not in 1620 as 
stated in opposite column. 



2t 



THE RHADE RECORD 



ARCHIBALD HENDERSON VINDICATED! 



The Previous No. XIII Record (p. 14) 
contained an account of Arch, bald Hender- 
sons arrest ill usage & confinement in the 
Town jail of Boston in 1652 all of which 
the present deposition in Court, by an eye 
witness proves to have been entirely unwar- 
rant d. It mil;, justifies the action of the 
Reade Record in demanding that the brutal 
Constable be dismissed from the Police 
Force. Copy of the deposition follows : 

The Testimony of Jno. George 
about 18 Years. This Deponent saith that 
Coming with Mr. Henderson to his Led 
in the last day of the weeke at evening ab rut 
the Red Lyon [inn] there met him a man 
which did offer him some affront, witlnmt 
any cause given, on which some crosse 
wordes passed between them, and thi man 
went and raised a Kind of tumult about him, 
but Mr. Henderson made toward his lodge- 
ing and they followed him ; then he turned 
and desired them to goe to their lodgeing 
for he was going to his, but they harr 
him in a provoking manner; and said they 
would lay him fast by and by, though he 
went on peaceablie, not disturbing any man, 
and coming to good man Thomases, he 
asked for the key of his chamber and stand- 
ing at his chamber doorc, waiting for a light. 



and readie to enter, came the Constable and 
said, you fraud, I desire to spake with you ; 
Saith Mr. Henderson, I am in my Chamber 
and desire to goe to bed ; and with such 
the constable called for aide; and dragged 
down stairej and pulled h m by the haire of 
the head to the barr. 

Then came goodir.an Thomas and a ked 
what the matter was ; the Constable an- 
swered that he was drunke ; saith he, left 
him alone to me, and I will rule him ; then 
the men that were with the Constable pulled 
him downe by the haire; goodman Thomas 
said : he would take him and see him forth 
coming on the second day; but he [the Con- 
stable] minded it not, nor accept [ed] of 
bayle ; Then Mr. Henderson strove with 
them, and they tooke him by the haire, and 
dragged h,m out of the doores. and had him 
down in the Channell [gutter?] and the 
Constable took his staffe, and with both his 
hands stroke him many blowes ; and further 
saith not. 

Taken Upon Oath the second of the 
Sixth month [2d August] 1652 before me 
William Hibbens. 

This is a time copie of the deposition of 
Jno George, compared with the orginal 

J. Edward Rawson, Recorder. 



CREATION 

I From Public Opinion, London, England.) 



God plucked a golden quill 

From Michael's tt'itig : 
The host thai had before been still 

Began to sing. 

He spread a sheet of light 

Before Him ; then 
Deep down into the pot of night 

He dipped His pen. 



Ea?th and sea and air, 

Sun, moon and stars, 
All things of power and beauty were 

His characters. 

The mighty word was penned 

Age after age ; 
And each age com me; to an end 

He turned a page. 



And last to make all sure, 
(Read it who can.' ) 

He set thereto His signature 
And called it Man. 



A. J. Young 

in Boas and Ruth. 



TIbe TRea fte IRecor ft 

Number XV. BOSTON , MASS., U.S.A. Oct, l°22 - Oct., 1923. 



THE READE SOCIE 




FOR GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH- ■ 
Organized, 1904 Cjp \ {J Incorporated], 1914 

The Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Reade Society^va.s held in Kimball 
Hall. New England Historic-Genealogical Building. 9 AshbufhaiL. Place, Boston. 
October 30, 1923, as per notice. 

The meeting was called to order by the President, ("apt. George W. Reed. 

The minutes of last year's meeting were then read by the Secretary, approved, 
and placed on hie. 

The Treasurer's report was then read and approved. Ordered, thai it be 
printed and mailed to the members. 

On motion of the Secretary it was voted that the Permanent Life Funds, now 
in the savings bank, be invested in United States government bonds. 

The report of the Secretary was then read, approved, and placed on file. It 
showed the need of a much larger membership to furnish funds to pay the in- 
creased cost of printing the Reade Record, a new supply of Membership Certifi- 
cates, and other expenses. 

Musical selections were then rendered by Mr. Byron W. Reed. 

Matters of business were then called up, the most important of which was an 
amendment of the by-laws offered by the Secretary, which is (in part) as follows : 

Resolved, that under Article II of the by-laws, that the last paragraph, concern- 
ing Life Membership and the Permanent Fund arising therefrom, shall be changed to 
read as follows : " In event of the dissolution of the said Corporation, said Permanent 
Fund shall be delivered to the New Fngland Historic-Genealogical Society, to be held 
by them as a special permanent fund, the interest of which shall preferably be used in 
the purchase of Read-Reed-Keid (or however the name be spelled) genealogies, works, 
manuscripts, and binding or rebinding the same." 

After some debate the motion was put before the meeting and adopted by unani- 
mous vote. 

Then, upon motion of the Secretary, i.n testimony of the musical services 
rendered the Society in 1922 and 1923, Byron W. Reed was elected an honorary- 
member. 

The election of officers was then held. Mr. Charles F. Read, Treasurer, 
stated that, owing to the press of work as clerk of the Bostonian Society, he 
should be forced to decline reelection. Miss Helen Leah Reed, Vice-President, 
offered a resolution expressing the appreciation of the Society for his twenty 
years' services, which was adopted by unanimous vote. 

Mr. C. F. Reed then moved that one ballot containing the names of the can- 
didates for election for the coming year be cast by the Secretary, which motion 
being adopted by vote, the Secretary cast the ballot which resulted as follows: ( see 
page 14.) 

A recess was then taken for refreshments and a social half hour. 

The meeting was then called to order by the President, and no further busi- 
ness being at hand the Society adjourned until the next annual meeting, in Octo- 
ber, 1924. 

ALANSON H. REEL 
Old State House Secretary . 

Boston, Massachusetts. 



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The Nineteenth Annual Meeting of the Reade Society was 
held in Kimball Hall, New England Historic-Genealogical Building, 
9 Ashburton Place, Boston, October 31, 1922, according to notice. 

The meeting was called to order by Henry B. Reed, President. 

The report of the Treasurer was then read and approved. It 
showed a prosperous year, with all bills paid. 

It was voted the Treasurer's report be printed and sent to all 
members of the Society. 

The Secretary's report was then read, approved, and placed on 
file. 

The Election of Officers was then held, and resulted as follows: 

President, Capt. George W. Reed, of Lexington. 
Vice-President, Miss Helen Leah Reed, of Cambridge. 
Treasurer, Charles F. Read, of Brookline. 
Secretary, Alanson H. Reed, of Boston. 
Genealogist, George A. Taylor, of Boston. 

Mr. Byron W. Reed then played and sang in Spanish, Porto 
Rican, Mexican and Cuban melodies, with accompaniment on the 
guitar. Also exhibited and played upon a native Porto Rican mu- 
sical instrument made from a long calabash or gourd 150 years old. 

Mrs. Virginia R. Farr, a member from Glendale, California, 
played a solo on the violin, and many familiar old plantation 
melodies. 

Resolutions were then offered by the Secretary, which (in 
part) were as follows, and adopted by unanimous vote : 

Resolved, That for the protection of Colonial and Revolutionary 
names, and to avoid confusion, mistake, or fraud to our posterity, the 
Reade Society shall use its efforts to prevent the taking by foreigners of 
any Colonial or other American names which have been made prominent 
in Colonial or Revolutionary times, or subsequently thereto, and for this 
purpose the Secretary shall cause a copy hereof to be sent to our senators 
and representatives in Congress. 

A recess was then taken, refreshments were then served, Mrs. 
Everell Morss and Miss Helen Leah Reed pouring tea, and a social 
hour ensued. 

The Society was then called to order by the President, Capt. 
George W. Reed, who made a short address. 

No further business being brought before the meeting, the 
members sang America and the Society adjourned until the next 
annual meeting, in October, 1923. 

ALANSON H. REED, 

Secretary. 

Boston. Massachusetts 
October 31, 1923 



T II Li R !•: A 1) I-: kiKORD 



ISAAC READ, RECTOR OF WRABNESS 

ESSEX COUNTY, ENGLAND 



"CHANCERY BILLS and AN- 

S\\ ERS BEFORE 1714. 

"i Mins 591-30-Public Record Office 
Land 

"Bill i 13th Feb. 1666-7 by Isaack 
Reade of Wrabness, Co. Essex, Clerk, 
of Thomas Reade late of Col- 
chester v- his brother Thomas Reade." 
"Complainant's father about 28th of 
August 1665, made his will and be- 
queathed the house in which he then 
dwelt in All Saints Parish. Colchester, 
tii Thomas Reade his son then living 
in Xew England in America, Carpen- 
ter, and several legacies to his daughter 
Bacon, then also living in New Eng- 
land and to his daughter Ingram, in 
Colchester. After several small lega- 
cies to the poor etc., he left out of love 
to complainant and his children, all 
the residue of his estate to complain- 
ant and his heirs, making complainant 
and John Clarke of Buttolphs Parish 
in Colchester, his Executors. He sent 
to his brother in America, bidding him 
come over to receive his legacies. 
Thomas came and (as eldest son) was 
discontented with his portion under 
the will (proved in P.C.C.). Finally 
an agreement was made between them 



in January last, but now Thomas gives 
nut that his father made no will etc., 
etc." 

I opy of the above document was 
sent tu the Secretary by Air. A. Wil- 
liam Read, 10 Westcotes Drive, Lei- 
cester, England, Honorary Member of 
the Reade Society. 

COMMENT 

The will of Thomas Read of Col- 
chester, Carpenter is printed in the 
Reade, Record No. X. and also that 
of his son who came to Xew Eng- 
land in America. It will be seen that 
the above Chancery Suit proves be- 
yond question that RECTOR ISAAC 
of WRABNESS was son of the COL- 
CHESTER Thomas Read, the Car- 
penter; and that the Secretary was 
evidently a little too hasty in sawing 
off that genealogical limb, despite Air. 
Fosters great authority. He cheer- 
fully admits his mistake, the more that 
it is in his own favor. 

In this Chancery Suit, it seems that 
the daughter Rachel Hocker had lo t 
her husband and married again and ap- 
pears as "daughter Ingram" (See also 
Reade Record, No. XII). 



ISAAC 2 READ OF SALEM 

SON OF THOMAS 1 THE PLANTER 

{Sec Reade Record, No. IV.) 

The following data gathered from Salem, Essex Co., Records, for the Secretary 
by Mr. G. A. Taylor, Genealogist, disclose many interesting facts. 



Reade Record Number 6 (1913) is 
evidently in error in slating that Isaac 
Read of Salem married secondly a 
Mary and by her had many children. 

According to manuscript Salem 
marriage- -aid Isaac Read married 



March 10th, 1673, Joane Stone. The 
admon. and bond at his death 1710, 
showing surviving widow lane is as 
follows: '((;. .\. T.) 

Essex County Probate Court, No. 
23365 



T II E K K A DE R E C O R D 



"Know all Men i;\ these Pres- 
ents, That We Jane Reed" ( she uses 
same spelling in signing) "Widow 
of Isaac Reed, VI. Principle, and 
Jacob Read" (he uses same spelling in 
signing) "and Nathanl Tompkins" etc 
"all of Salem in ye County of Essex" 
etc. "are holden and stand firmly 
bound and obliged unto John Appleton, 
Esq. Judge of the Probate of Wills" 
etc. "of Essex County in the full sum 
of Three hundred Pounds, Currant 
Money in New England" etc. 

Sealed with our Seals. Dated l1 
Ipswich. 29 Day of December \.nno 
Domini One thousand seven hundred 
and Ten" etc. 

"The condition of this present I >bli 
gation is such. Thai if the above 
bounden Jane Reed, Vdmrex.of all ye 
Is and estate of [saac Reed, Late 
of Salem Deceased In* e-tate cause to 
he made a true and perfect Inventory" 
etc. "at or bi first Mondaj of 

July next ensuing" etc "which will 
be in the year of our Lord. One 
thousand seven hundred and eleven." 
Jane Reed ( SEAL) 
Jacob Read (seal) 
Nathaneill Tompkins (seal) 
(seals simply red wax). 
Signed and Delivered 
in the Presence of 
Jeremiah Beals, 
Daniel Rogers. 

(The above witness Daniel Rogers 
mav have been a relative of Jehosa- 
phat Rogers who married Sarah, a 
sister of the above mentioned Isaac 
Read.) 

"Inventory of estate of Isaac 
Reed late of Salem deceas/1711 
June 26" "Decembr ye 8, 1710 

Item for house and land 40:00:00 

for 12 Ackers of land he 

died posest of in the north 

feld more or less 60:00:00 

for 2 oxen : one cow : and 

hefer 10:00:00 

for 6 piges : 1 sheep 3 :03 :00 

for a pipe of sider 15 :00 



Inden corn 20 bushels, 




Barly 7 Bushells 


3 :00 :00 


for Bedes, beden and bed- 




stedes 


5:00:00 


for cart, plow. Iron traces 


2:00:00 


for pot hoche fring pan 




pot hucl I 


1 :00 :00 


for 3 chares 


6:00 


for 2 labels 


6:00 


for chestes pailes and old 




caske 


12:00 


for puter pot and puter 




dish 


10:00 


3 erthen dishes with 3 




woden dishes 


6:00 


for waring aparill 


1:10:00 




128:17:00 



(127:18:00— G. A. T.) 
"priser 

Samuel ffoster 
Steven jewell 

sworn pier) lane Reed, ad. ex. June 
26—1711" 

"Essex SS.— June 26. 1712 
Before ye Double Judge as aforesaid 
lane Reed admrex to ye Estate of 
Isaac Reed late of Salem. Deced In- 
testate, appeared and made oath yt 
ve above Is a True and prfect In- 
ventory of ye Estate of ye Deced so 
farr as is come to her knowledge and 
add what may appear hereafter. 

Sworn 

AtteM Daniel Rogers Regr. 
Registry of Deeds, Salem. Essex 

my. Massachusetts. 
John Dunwell & Uxr. To Jacob 
Read — Received on Record |une 22d. 
1716. 

"To all People to whom these Pres- 
ents shall come I John Dunwell of 
Top-field in ve County of Essex in 
Mew England, Yeoman, & MARY 
my wife.' ONE OE YE DAUGH- 
TERS OF ISAAC READ OF 
SALEM, in sd County of Essex, 
aforesd, deceased, send Greeting" etc 
"Know ye that we ye sd John & 
Mary Dunwell for and in considera- 
con of ye full & just sume of eitdit 
pounds in currant money of New 



THK READE RECORD 



England to us in hand payd by our 
Uncle Mr Jacob Read, of Salem, 
aforesd Yeoman," etc "Have given, 
granted" etc "unto ye sd Jacob Read 
and to his heirs" e c "all ye estate, 
right, title, interest, claim and demand 
"-hatsoever" etc "we ye sd John & 
Alary Dunwell have" etc "in & to ye 
Estate nt Houseing, land & Esta'e 
Real & Personall of our late FATH- 
ER IS \AC READ deceased," etc "be- 
ing scitua'e in Salem aforesd & in all 
8 every o'her place," etc "Signed & 
sealed twenty ninth day of March 
Anno Dom. 1715 
( Witnesses) Mark of 

Ezekiel Upton, Tho X Nichols 
mark of 
Tn : X Dunwill ( seal) 
Mary X Dunnell (seal) 
Essex Ss. Salem — June 22, 1715 be- 
fore Stephen Sewall, Just. Peace. 
Registry of Deeds, Sai em, Essex 
County, Massachusetts. Volume 
31, folio 185 

1715 June 22, Isaac Read estate, to 
Jacob Read. 

Thomas Lewen & I'xr. To Jacob 
Read — 

Received on Record. 
"To all People" etc "Thomas Lewen 
of BOSTON in ye County of Suf- 
folk, in Xew England, Marriner, & 
Alice his wife. ONE OF THE DAU- 
GHTERS OF ISAAC READ late 
of Salem in ye County of Essex in 
Xew England aforesd deceased send 
Greeting Know ye that we ye said 
Thomas & Alice Lewen for and in 
consideracon" etc "of ffive poundes 
money" etc "payd by our Uncle Jacob 
Read of Salem aforesaid. Husband- 
man," etc "sell unto ye sd Jacob 
Read." etc "all claim" etc "to ye Es- 
tate houseing lands and estate real 
and personal of our late father Isaac 
Read deceased, lying and being, scit- 
uate in Salem aforesd. and in all & 
every other place & places whereso 
ever" etc 

"Sett unto our hands X- scales ye 
Tenth dav of |une, ^nno Dom. 1712. 



Thomas Lewen his X mark (and 
seal ) 

Alice Lewen her X mark (and seal) 
Signed, sealed and delivered 
presence of Joseph Cooledge. Jo: 
Christopher, Boston 10th of June 
1712. Acknowledged before Paul 
Dudley 

Just. Peace. 
Registry of Deeds, Salem, Essex 
Couirv. Massachusetts, Volume 31 
folios '157 and 158 
Abraham Read To Jacob Read — 
Received on Record Sept 10th 1716 
"To all people" etc "I Abraham Read 
of Salem," etc "Husbandman, for & 
in consideracon of ye sum of fforty 
& ffive noundes" etc "payd by Jacob 
Read of Salem" etc "I do hereby" 
etc "sell" etc "unto ye sd Jacob 
Read" etc "my right" etc "to all ye 
houseing & land" etc "appertaining 
to my FATHER ISAAC READ of 
Salem, deceased*' 

"Signed and sealed August ye 20th 
Anno Dom. 1716" etc 

ABRAHAM R READ(sea) i 
ye mark of 
(Witnesses) Danll Epes, senr 
Danll Epes. junr. 
"August 20th 1716 acknowledged by 
Abraham Read, his wife Mary Read 
then appeared also personally to sur- 
render all her right of Dower & 
power of thirds" etc 

"examined Danll Epes Just, peace." 
Isaac Read called Senior in 1702 
Registry of Deeds, Salem, Essex 
County, Mass. Volume 31 folio 182- 
3, Received on Record June 22, 1715 
For sum of Eight Poundes Joseph 
I lolti 'ii sells to Isaac Read, land de- 
scribed as "upland & meadow in ye 
township of Salem" 
lii this (\^i^<\ Isaac Read is calle 1 
"Isaac Read, Senr of Salem" Dated 
3rd November 1702 
i This deed would point to the proba- 
bility that Isaac Reed. Senr. had at 
this dale 1702. a -on living by the 
name of Isaac, hut who evidently 
deceased the father, as no deed 



THE READE RECORD 



of record appears after the father's 
death, when Abraham, Alice and 
Mary, children of Isaac Reed sell 
their shares in their father's estate to 
their Uncle Jacob Read.— G. A. T.) 
Tt will be noted that this deed is 
recorded some thirteen years after 
the sale, and is recorded the same 
day and year as the deed from Mary 
(Read) Reay to Jacob Read, brother 
of Isaac. 

Mary (Read) Reay, daughter of 
Tiiom \s Read of Salem, the Plant- 
er. 

Registry of Deeds, Salem. Essex 
County, Massachusetts. Volume 31 
folios 158 and 159 
"Mary Read to lacob Read— Re- 
i eived on Record June 22, 1715. 
"Mary Reaj ye wife of Daniel Reay 
of Salem and formerly Mary Read" 
etc "sum of Ten pound-" etc "payd 
by" etc "brother Jacob Read of ye 
aforesd Town" etc "all my right" 
etc "to ye estate of my FATHER 
THOMAS READ late of Salem 
aforesd" etc 

(signed) Mary Reay (and a seal) 
"27 of Decembei < >ne Thousand 

en hundred and thirteen" 
( Witnesses) 
Jehosaphal Rogers 
Susannah Paine (her mark) 

"acknowledged June 22nd 1715" 
"examined Jno Hathorne Just, peace. 
(above .Mary (Read) Reay was the 
daughter of Thomas Read of Salem 



the Planter and sister of Isaac and 
Jacob Read. The witness Jehosa- 
phat Rogers was her brother-in-law 
having married Sarah daughter of 
Thomas Read. Jehosaphat Rogers 
was one of the son- of Jeremiah 
Rogers of Dorchester and Lancaster, 
Mass. 

(G. A. T.) 

O IMMENT 

From the above it is evident that 
Isaac Read 1 ' lived and died in Salem. 
Tlic date of his birth or bapt. is un- 
known, hut probably was about 1645. 
as his brother \aron "b. aht 1647" 
anil sister Susanna bapt. Sept 23 
1649, make this a probable estimate. 
He was a soldier in King Philips 
War. 1676 and died 1710. (G. S. S. 
in Reade Record No. VI.) The 
baptism of his children are not shown 
in (he Parish Register which would 
indicate that neither he nor his wife 
Joane were members of the church. 
Their children as shown in the above 
documents were as follows: 

Isaac Jun. [probable] predeceased 
Father. 

Abraham, Husbandman. Wife 
Mary acks. Deed. 

M \ky. who m. John Dunwell of 
Topsfield. 

\i ici:. who m. Thomas Lewen of 
Boston. 

[A. H. R.] 



ESTATE OF JACOB 4 READ OF SALEM 

SON OF JONATHAN 3 READ OF SMITHFIELD, R. I. 



The Adm & Bond states 
"Jona Reed of Smithfield in ye Coun- 
ty of Providence In ye Colony of 
Rhode Island in Providence Planta- 
tion : Husbandman Rich. Palmer, 
shoreman and Jona. Reed, Potter of 
Salem in ye Countv of Essex" etc. 
Dated twentieth Day of Febry 1748 
also 



"The condition of this present obli- 
gation is such That if the adm. 
bounden Jonathn Reed, admr of 
all and singular of goods chattels. 
Rights & Creditts of his son Jacob 
Reed late of Salem In ye County 
of Essex aforesd Marriner, Deed 
Intestate" 



THE READE RECORD 



"To make just & true account of 
said adminstn at or before firdt 
Monday of October 1749 

signed JONATHN READ 
Richard Palmer 
Danl Appleton 
Tames Tarbox 

JONATHAN REED 
( signed in a different band 
writing from the first 
above written Jonathn Read 
— G. A. T.) 
No 23367 Essex County Mass. Pro- 
bate Court 
"An Inventory of ye state of Jacob 
Reed, late of Salem, Deed as shewed 
to us the subscribers by his FATHER 
Jna. Reed Adminstr on sd Estate 
(after Haveing been Duely sworn) 
Have apprised the same as follows 
(Vizt) :— 

To a Dwelling House & Barn 
with about six acres of Land 
adjoining to ye same, situate 
and Lying in ye Middle par- 
rish in Salem '(so called) att£300:0:0 



To his Wearing apparell att 10:0:0 



310:0:0 
The above is New Inv. 
Salem Febry ye 23rd 1748|9. Daniel 
Epes. Junr. Robert Willson, Jonathn 
Kettell 

( signed ) Jonathn Read 
Essex Ss. Ipswich Febr. 27, 1748 
Jonathn Read made oath by way 
of affirmation ec. to ye foregoing In- 
ventory Befor Thos Berry, Jud Prob. 
To ye Honble Thms Berry Esqr 
Judge of ye Probate of Wills for ye 
County of Essex eca. 

COMMENT 
Note of the above estate though 
of so late a date is made here, be- 
cause of the absolute proof that the 
Smithfield Reads of Conn, were of 
the line of Thomas Read the Planter 
of Salem Mass. Jacob 2 , Jonathan 3 
above. [See Records No. V and VI. 1 

[A. H. R.] 



NICHOLAS READ, of Stoke Hall-next-Ipswich 

CO. SUFFOLK, ENGLAND. ESQUIRE. WILL 1670 



"To my neice the only da. of my 
late Brother Nicholas Read late of 
Chestworth [Chelsworth] deceased, 
and now marryed wife at Woolwith, 
£3." 

"To John Read my nephew now 
rx New England, son of the Sd. 
Nicholas Read my late Brother de- 
ceased £5. 



[Signed] NICHOLAS READ. 
I lated 16 March, 1670 
Proved 22 June 1671 
Ipswich Probate Court, Suffolk Co. 
Eng. 



COMMENT 
The above extract from the long 
will in the collection of English wills 
in possession of the Secretary, has 
often raised the question as to which 
of the Johns in New England at the 
above date might be the identical 
with the above. No search of the 
English parish Registers has been 
made to determine his age or other 
facts about him. Possibly he may 
have been that Captain John Read of 
Newbury whose will follows, though 
the latter would seem rather too 
young a man to fill the place. 

[A. H. R.] 



10 



THE READE RECORD 



WILL OF CAPTIAN JOHN REED OF NEWBURY 

1729 



I Captain John Reed of London, 
England, but now of 
ivbury in ye county of 
Province of Mass. Bay, New Eng- 
land, being in a very weak and low 
condition of Body but of perfect 
d and memory" 
Item I give and bequeath unto 
my son John Reed ye sum of five 
shillii 

Item I give and bequeath unto 
Mary Reed my wife and to ye child 
or children lawfully begotten of her 
body by me, all ye rest of my Real 
and Personal estate" etc 

ly I do constitute make and 
order V 'hint clerk my execu- 

tor 

esses: — 
pher Tappan 
Vdamson 
1 1 Butter 

I mi IX REED (neat signature) 
seal horse or 

deer (antlers faint ) 
courant — G. A. T.) 
I 25 March 1729 
ed at Ipswich. Mass. Tune 22nd, 
1729 



(In proving the will Tappan is cal 
Rev. Mr. Christo Tap] 
Newbury June the 26th 1729. 
Apprizers estate of (apt |ohn Read 
Mr Cutting 

dfry) & Mr John Gerrish all 

holders in X appeared etc. 

Total 132 | 8 shillings, nine 

pence. i principal item "Providi 
Bills" amounting to 101 pounds, and 

-hilling. 



COMMENT 
The Histories of Newbury contain 
nothing regarding the ab iptain 

fohn nor in fact any other |ohn Ri 
or Reed up to 1800. 

The Births V s and Deaths 

of Newbury begin about 1640. On 
Birth and Marriage records prior 
h by the name of John 
or Read occurs. 
However on the Records of Queen 
Am pel (Episcopal), New- 

bury, Deaths or Burials appears the 
'Captain John Reed, of 
England fune 7. 1729" 

[A. H. R.l 



COL. THOMAS READE OF SALEM, MASS. 

AND OF WICKFORD CO., ESSEX, ENGLAND 

By G. A. Taylor 



Manuscript 
No. 1120 in the British Museum the 
"am Wickford 

was "Azure, 
a griffin segreant Or." 

The eldest son of Edmund Reade 
of Wickford, by name William, 
in 1659 and mentions in his will the 
following, of his New England, rela- 
tives: — "my sister Lake, my sisteT 
Symonds, and sister Winthropp." 
R. Rec. No. XIII.] 



The second son of Edmund of 
Wickford, England, was Samuel 
de who was a physician and in 
1643 was of Bishop Stortford. Hert- 
fordshire, England. He probably d 
before 1659 as there is no mention 
of him in his brother William Rea : 
will. 

Thomas Reade, the third s 
Edmund Reade, came to New Eng- 
land and was admitted Freeman of 
the Colony of Mass., 1st April 1634. 



THE R E A D E RECORD 



11 



He settled at Salem, and in March 
1637 was appointed Ensign of the 
Watch of that town. In 1647 he was 
called Captain. On 16th February 
1636 the town of Salem. Mass. 
granted him a farm of three hundred 
acres north west of Salem, the 
bounds of which were settled 28th 
( 28 ) February 1662. He was not long 
a resident of New England, and 
finally returned to England and took 
an active part in the Civil War there. 
becoming a Colonel in the Parliamen- 
tary Army. 

When the Parliamentary Army was 
encamped before Pembroke, 28th 
Tune 1648, Cromwell writing to Lord 
Fairfax, a General in said Army. 
says "They" (the Royalists) "have 
made some notable sallies upon Lt.- 
Col. Reade's quarter to his loss." 
Reade had been entrusted with the 
seige of Tenby, that had ended June 
2nd (Commons Journal V, page 588) 
and at the time of above writing he 
is assisting at Pembroke. Writing 
11th July 1648, to Hon. William 
Lenthall. Speaker of the House of 
Commons. Cromwell says "Sir — The 
Town and Castle of Pembroke were 
surrendered to me this day, being the 
eleventh of July, upon the Proposi- 
tions which I send you here enclosed" 
after this Cromwell moved northward 
and regarding the Battle of Preston, 
he writes again to the Speaker of the 
House of Commons, under date 
"Warrington, 20th August. 1648," 
as follows : — "The regiments of foot 
were ordered as followeth. There 
being a lane, very deep and ill, up 
to the enemy's army, and leading to 
the Town, we commanded two regi- 
ments of horse whereof was Colonel 
Harrison's and next was my own, to 
charge up that lane, and on either 
side of this advanced the "(main)" 
battle, in which were LT.-Colonel 
READE's, Colonel Dean's, and Col- 
onel Pride's on the right, Colonel 
Bright's and my Lord General's on 
the left" . . . "There came no band 



of your foot to fight that day but did 
it with incredible valor and resolu- 
tion, among which Colonel Bright's, 
my Lord General's, Lt. -Colonel 
READE's and Colonel Ashton's had 
the greatest work, they often coming 
to push of pike and to close fray, 
and always making the enemy to 
recoil, and indeed I must needs say, 
God was as much seen in the valor 
of the officers and soldiers of these 
before mentioned as in any action 
that hath been performed, the enemy 
making, though he was still worsted, 
very stiff and sturdy resistance." In 
the beginning of June 1648, Colonel 
Thomas Reade's step-father. Rev. 
Hugh Peter, Chaplain to Cromwell, 
went to Mil ford Haven and from the 
"Lion." a Parliamentary ship, riding 
there, got "two drakes, two demi- 
culverines, and two whole culverines" 
and safely conveyed them to the 
Army before Pembroke, which town 
as stated above, was surrendered to 
the Parliamentary Army, July 1648. 
Colonel Thomas Reade for sometime, 
was Governor of Stirling Castle. He 
has been thought to have taken part 
with ( ieneral Monck in the restoration 
of Charles II. and this is possible, 
though in October 1661, he was one 
of several officers "committed close 
prisoners to the Gatehouse, Westm., 
by expresse warant sygned by his 
Maties" ( Majesty's ) "principal Sec- 
retary of State." He married Pris- 
cilla Ranks, daughter of John of 
Maidstone. Kent, and of London, 
who died in 1642. He had six chil- 
dren, three of whom died young. 
Colonel Read died in 1662. His son 
Samuel, a merchant of London, was 
living in 1701. In Ipswich Mass 
Deeds, vol 5, page 24. under date of 
April 1684, is found a deed between 
Daniel Epps, Senr. of Ipswich. Es- 
sex County. Mass. and Elizabeth his 
wife, on the one part, and Samuel 
Reade of the City of London, Eng- 
land. Merchant, regarding "a certain 
Island in Township of Ipswich con- 



12 



T H E R E A I.) L RECORD 



taining sixty acres of land." This 
Samuel was the son of Colonel 
Thomas Reade. 



THE WILL 
OF COLONEL THOMAS READE 

"I Thomas Reade in the Parish of 
Wickford in the Count) of Essex 

gent, doe make my last will in manner 
and forme following : 

[Ton long to print here but makes 
bequests.] 

To My beloved wife Priscilla Read 
To My Sonne Samuell Read 
To My Sone Thomas Reade 
To My daughter Priscilla Read 
[tern: "Ii is my will that twenty 
pounds a yeare by the yere should be 
allowed might of the incomes of nn 
estate which will arise for the bring- 
ing up of my children unless \\ v 
Supervisors seeth good cause to adde 
something more," 

"Also it is my earnest desire that 
my wife and overseers, of this my 
l»>st will, teake keare that my children 
be brought up in the feare of the 
Lord and to have good Education 
and learning and my sunes to be put 
ought to [a trade] which they are 
most apte to" 

M\ Brother Calebe Banckes, Es- 
quire, Thomas Cocke of Pebmarshe 
Esquire Sir John Banckes. Barran, 
Allyn Reade gent. Jacob Willit "Cit- 
ser" [citizen?] to be Supervisors and 
Gardiens to my children during their 
noneage. In Witness whereof 1 have 
sett my hand and seale this 26 [ulv 
1662 ' 

Proved at London 6 November, 1662. 
[Signed] THOMAS READE 

COMMENT 
In the Collections of the Mass 
Hist. Soc. Vol. VII, Fourth Series 
will be found "The Winthrop 
Papers." 



The following letter from Thomas 
Reade [p. 114] "If [for] his Hon- 
nered Brother Mr. John Winthroppe 
at Pequett in New England Thes: 

"[these] if of interest 

Stirling the 9 March 1656. 
Honnored Brother 

1 received yours of the 24th Oc- 
tober, and in deade we are very glad 
to heare from you. espeshally of your 
good helthes. Thurogh the Lordes 
goodnes we enjoye the like Mercy. 
I am at present in Scotland, and my 
wife with me. Itt hath plessed the 
Lord to give us 6 children, 4 nowe 
living, Prissill, Samuel, Thomas and 
John: two of them borne in this 
Towne. The youngest is abought a 
quarter oulde. Ower two eldest died 
in England. 



I thinke for to be in England with- 
in this forte nyte at the furthereste, 
hut I hope to see you heare, or to 
heare frame you before that tyme. 
Thus in great haste I comeit you to 
[the] Ceaper of the Israeli o'f God 
and rest 

Yours to command to My pouer, 
THOMAS READE. 



Grants and Certificates of Arms 

The Genealogist, New Series vol. 
25, 1' 108-9. 

Read — William and Thomas Sons 
of Edmund Reade of Wickford Co. 
Essex. Confferred] by Sir E. Bys- 
she. Carter 20 Jan 1653. 

\/. a Griffin Segrfeant] and a 
Canton or. Crest A griffin's head 
erased, Az. beak and ears or. 

Add Ms. 26,758. 

See Suffolk Manonal Families for 
the arms of Brother William above of 
Birchanger, p. 163. Also long pedi- 
gree of the Wickford Family 

[A. H. REED] 



At a special meeting of the Board of Directors of the Reade 
Society, held January 22, 1924, the following resolu- 
tion, which was offered by Charles F. Read, a past 
President of the Society, •was adopted by a rising vote : 

"The Reade Society hereby places on its records its 
most profound appreciation of the services of 

Hlanson 3Henr\> IReeb 

as its Assistant Secretary and Secretary for more than 
eighteen years. 

" Making the study of genealogy his avocation during 
the greater part of his long life, he pursued his genealogi- 
cal studies in New England and old England, while 
residing in the West, and had compiled the record of the 
descendants of Thomas Reed of Colchester, England. 

Returning to Boston, his birthplace, in 1901, to live, 
he became, at its organization, a member of the Reade 
Historical and Genealogical Association, later incorporated 
as the Reade Society for Genealogical Research, and was 
soon elected its Assistant Secretary. 

" During all these years he was deeply interested in 
its work in the various lines of the name, and even as he 
reached the serenity of more than four-score years his 
activities did not diminish, and he was to the end the 
director of the Society's research. 

"He was born in Boston, Mass., March 1, 1841, and 
died in Brookline, Mass., January 8, 1924. 

Mr. Reed ivas a thirty-second degree Mason and a 
member of the Mystic Shrine, and ivas the oldest member 
of the Masonic fraternity in Chicago, 'where he had first 
associated himself with the order. 



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WILLIAM 2 AND ISAAC? READ 

SONS OF WILLIAM 1 READE OF BATOME, ENGLAND 
AND BOSTON, MASS. 

(See Record No. X) 



WILLIAM READ - WILL 1691 

I, William Read of New England 
in the parts beyond the seas, Mar- 
riner, have constituted John Harlock 
of Ratcliff, Stepney, in the county of 
Middlesex, gentleman, and Elizabeth 
his wife my attorney &c. On board 
the good ship Granado, Capt. Loader 
commander, on a voyage for Jamaica, 
2 October 1691. 

Witness Fred. Johnson, Jas. Trav- 
ers. 
Proved 12 September 1692— Fane 173 

[Waters Gen. Gleanings in Eng. 
Vol. 1, p. 177] 



ISAAC READ 

YE PINKE KATHARINE 

Doc. No. 2548, Supreme Court Files 

Co. Suffolk. 

"An ace. of wages to ye Pinke 
Katharine upon a voyage to Jamaica 
[West Indies] 

Jno. Pullin. Master 1680. 
Myself shipt ye 1: of May at 5:10. 
Isaac Reed shipt ye 6th of May at 
1:11. o|p. 

William Douse shipt ye 20th of May 
Richd. Treat " " " " " 
Dick " " 7 " " 
Wm. ye Cooke " " 13 " " 
Jam Part 
Samson, Shore 
Jno. Smith 

The 19th Oct 1680 at Jamaica 
Shipt ye hands again for ye Bav 
T Boston] 
Jno. Smith 
Isaac Read 
Richard Treat 
Wm. Douse 
Samson Shore 



Wm. Ye Cook or 

Humphrey Dickeson 

Myself e. ' 

"Ye voyage ended latter part of April 

1690" 



ISAAC REED OF BOSTON, N.E. 
Abstract of Will, 1695 

"Isaac Reed of the parish of Boston 
New England, Marriner now belong- 
ing to 11. S. Shipp the Tyger consti- 
tute Mark Pooyd of Kent, Marriner, 
Mv Attorney. 

The said Mark Pooyd Executor. 
Dated 11 October 1695. 
I 'roved 21 December 1695. 

P. C. C. London Irby. 188. 
Transmitted to the Secretary by Mr. 
A. William Read of Leicester Eng- 
land. 



COMMENT 

The above documents afford in- 
formation regarding two sons of \\ il- 
liam of Batcome England and Boston 
Mass. by his second wife Ruth 
Crooke. 

William b. Feb. 3. 1654 5, was 
wild in his youth and brought into 
Court in 1671. 

Is we 1). Apr. 18. 1656. Mentioned 
in the Court records in 1671 in con 
])i ction with his brother. 

[See Keade Record No. X.] 

Little or nothing is known of the 
lives of these men except as abovi 
They seem to have left no posterity. 
Possibly a search of the Records in 
Condi m England might disclose fur- 
ther information 

[A. H. R.] 



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died [anuary 8, '924 
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P.O. Box 2629, Boston 



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COLCHESTER, CO. ESSEX 
ENGLAND 

The Oldest Town in Great Britain 

The average American tourist in 
England is usually content to limit his 
sightseeing to those historic spots 
which the guide books have made 
familiar, writes Adelaide Bragg Gill- 
espie in Travel, without ever realizing 
that there are many places of his- 
toric interest and actual beauty not 
far from the beaten track, which 
more than repay the adventurer who 
strikes off boldly from the popular 
itineraries. Comparatively few trav- 
elers, for example, explore the beaut- 
ies of Essex, yet this is a really charm- 
ing country that is rich in quaint and 
ancient towns and villages. 

And the touchstone of Essex is 
Colchester, only fifty-two miles from 
London, and easily accessible by 
motor or by train. From the stand- 



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of tourist, historian, archaeolog- 
i>t. and antiquary alike, Colchester 
is the most important town of its 
county, and a day, or many days 
may pleasurably and profitably be 
nt in visiting- its treasures. For 
Colchester makes the unique claim 
of being the oldest town in Great 
Bri ain, and as the relics and re- 
mains of its various inhabitants date 
back M Paleolithic and Neolithic times 
we hall not dispute the claim. 

e tells us that it was the 
home of "Old K ." the famil- 

iar figure of our childhood; and his- 
tory informs us, perhaps more accur- 
ately, that during the Roman occupa 
tion of Great Britain it was the site 
of a must important and prosperous 
city which bore the name of Cam- 
ulodunum. This ancient city has 
been recently much in the public eye 
owing to the important excavations 
which have been made in the Castle 
grounds. 

Note \ number of the earliest im- 
migrants to New England came from 
Colchester and vicinity. Their de- 
scendants are now scattered from the 
\tlatvic to the Pacific in our Empire 
Republic. A. H. R. 



WILL OF ALICE HAYNE, 1620 
OF SEMLEY, ENGLAND 

New Eng. Hist, and Gen. Register 
Vol. 39, p. 263 

IN the name of God Amen, the 
2d daye of March in the XVII Ith 
yere of the reigne of our Sovraign 
Lord King James and the yere 
our Lord God One thousand, Sixe 
hundred and twentie I Alee Hayme 
of prfecte memorie praising God doe 
make this my laste Will and testa 
ment in manor and forme following. 

% :}: % $ ^: :£ i(s ^ 

ft: 1 geve to my daughter Elizab] 
Read my great brass pot or croke 
my best cov'Ied and blanket one bol- 
ster one pillow and pillowbeck an I 



my best gov. wastcoates : 

li aperons i smock j coffer i barrell 
i tubbe. 

It: I bequethe to hir sonne Christo- 
pher Read v shillings. 
I : T bequethe to Thomas, John and 
William her sonnes each of them 
a Pewter dishe. 
ft : to her .son Marmaduke XII d._ 
It: f bequethe to hir daughter Eliza- 
beth Reade one brass pann of a 
gallon and one double kershew of 
Hollon. 

* [other bequests omitted] * 
It: I bequethe to Walter Hayme 
my sonn the half yeres p'fitt of 
my tenement after my decease 
whome 
1 make and ordaine to be my whole 

executor to whome 
I bequethe all the rest of my goods. 
In witness whereof f have Sette my 
hande the yere abov written 

In the presence of Marmaduke Read 
and Walter Hayme and John Beau- 
fort. 

COMMENT 

Semley is a parish in Wiltshire. 
not far from the county lines of 
Somerset and Dorsetshire. Walter 
Hayme the executor of the will above 
born in 1583 came with wife Eliza- 
beth five children and three servants 
m Sutton Mandeville, Wiltshire, 
England, in the ship Confidence to 
on in 1638 and settled in Sud- 
bury Mass. where he died 14 Feb- 
ruary 1664-5. 

An interesting question has been 

raised as to whether the Thomas 

■ 1 in the will above may not 

have been identical with Thomas 

1 "the Planter" who 
in Salem Ma s as early as 1 

William of ( '" Som 

whose wife was Susanna Hayme c u 
from that secti 1635 with wife 

& two children (sei ord 

No. X. p 2) as also did somewhat 
later William Read and wife Avis 
Che] if 1 .ong Sutton Somerset- 



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shire, (see Record No. X p. 11). 
These may well have been related to 
the above Elizabeth Read and her 
family, but as we lack the parish 
Registers of baptisms, Marriages and 



deaths it is impossible to do more 
than to surmise as to the facts. Rut 
an investigation would be worth 
while. 

A. II. R. 



SALEM MARRIAGES PRIOR TO 1796 

READ - READ - ALPHABETICAL LIST 



The marriage records of Salem, 
Essex Co. Mass. arc in manuscript 
having never been printed. Nor is 
there any copy at the New England 
Historic-Genealogical Society [G. A. 
T.]. For that reason this list of the 
Read-Reed marriages is here printed 
as it may be of use to our Members. 



Abigail Read of Charleston and 
George Darling, at Charlestown, 
Sept. 15. 1709 

Elisabeth Reed, daughter of Jonathan, 
husbandman, and Elijah Allen, son 
of Francis of Kitten', husbandman, 
Oct. 12, 1745. C. R. 7 

Eliza(beth) Reed and Tohn Trask, 
3rd, Dec. 19, 1727 

ISAACK Read and loane Stone, 
March 10th, 1673, Ct.'R. 

Isaac Reed and Rebecca Burton. Feb. 
24, 1736/7 

John Reed and Abigail Turner, Dec. 
27th, 1742 

Jona(than) Reed and Sarah Kemp- 
ton, January 1, 1743/4 



Mary Reed and [bhn Tomkins, Nov. 

20th, 1693. Ct.'R. 
Mary Reed and Nathan Procter, May 

14th, 1723 
Mary Reed and Joseph Morgan, jr., 

of Beverly, int. Dec. 1731 
Nathan Reed and. Elizabeth U'ffery, 

Oct. 20th, 1790 
Rebecca Reed and Samuel Silsbee 

i jr. in int.), Oct. 1, 1786 
Sarah Reed and Sa(mu)el Goldth- 

waite jr.. Jan. 1st, 1726/7 
Sarah Reed and Isaac Moor, Dec. 2, 

1745 
Sarah Reed and Ben(j)a(min) Dike. 

(before 1748) 
Thomas Reed and Hannah Lawrence, 

November 27, 1796 
William Reed and Mary Emerton, 

im. Sept. 1st, 1782 
Abraham Read and Mary Hemlock, 

int. March 28th, 1713 
Benja(min) Read and Sarah Car- 
riage, certif. Oct. 18th, 1778 
Elizabeth Read and |ohn Wilkinson, 

10:10: 1675. Ct. R. [G. A. T.] 



THE PAUCITY OF NAMES AFTER THE CONQUEST 

By Charles IV. Bardslcv 



There were no Scripture names in 
England when the Conqueror took 
possession ; i ] even in Nor- 

mandy they had appeared but a gen- 
eration or two before William came 
over. If any are found in the old 
English period, we may feel assured 
they were ecclesiastical titles adopted 



at the Ordination — Greek and Latin 
saints equally were unnoticed. 

It is hard to believe the statement 
I have made. Before many genera- 
tions had passed, Bartholomew, Si- 
mon, Peter, Philip, Thomas. Nicholas. 
John, and Elias, had engrossed a 
third of the male population; yet 



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Domesday Book has no Philip, no 
Thomas, only one Nicholas, and but 
a Sprinkling of Johns. It was not 
long before Jack and Jill took the 
place of Godric and Godgivu as rep- 
resentative of the English sexes, 
yet Jack was from the Bible, and 
Jill from the saintly Calendar. 

\\ ithout entering into a deep dis- 
cussion, we may say that the great 
mass of the old English names had 
gone down before the year 1200 had 
been reached. Those that survived 
only held on for bare existence. From 
the moment of William's advent, the 
names of the Norman began to pre- 
vail. He brought in Bible names, 
Saint names, and his own Teutonic 
names. The old English names 
bowed to them and disappeared. 

A curious result followed. From 
the year 1150 to 1550. four hundred 
years in round numbers, there was a 
much smaller dictionary of English 
personal names than there had been 
for four hundred years before [750 
to 1150] and than there has been in 
the four hundred years since [1550- 
1950. The Norman list was really 
a small one, yet took possession of 
nearly the whole of England. 

A consequence of this was the Pet- 
name Epoch [1150-1300]. In every 
community of one hundred English- 
men about the year 1300, there would 
be an average of twenty Johns and 
fifteen Williams, then would follow 
Thomas, Bartholomew, Nicholas, Phil- 
ip Simon. Peter, and Isaac from the 
Scriptures, and Richard, Robert. Wal- 
ter. Henry. Guy, Roger and Baldwin 
from the Teutonic list. Of femnli 
names. Matilda. Isabella and Emm' 
were first favorites, and Ceillia. Cath- 
arine, Margaret, and Gillian came 
closely on their heels. Behind thes^, 
arrain. followed a fairly familiar num- 
ber of names of either sex. some from 
'he Ten' on. some from the Hebrew, 
some from the Greek and Latin 
Church, hut, when all told not a large 
number. 



It was of course, impossible for 
Englishmen and Englishwomen to 
maintain their individuality on these 
terms. Various methods to secure a 
personality arose. The Surname 
was adopted, and there were John 
Ute-wood, John the Wheelwright, 
John the Bigg, and John Richard's 
son, in every community. Among 
the middle and lower classes these did 
not become hereditary till so late as 
1450, or 1500.* 

*Foot Note [this is easily proved. 
In the wardrobe accounts for Edward 
IV. 1480 occur the following items — 
"John I'oyntmaker, for pointing of 

XI dozen points of silk, pointed 

with agelettes of laton, 
"John Carter, for carriage away of 

a grete loode of robeux that was 

lefte in the strete. 
"To a laborer called Rychard Gardy- 

ner working in the gardyne. 
"Alice Shapster for making and 

washing of XXIIII sherts, and 
XX I HI stomachers" 

Shapster is a feminine form of 
shapper or shaper — one who shaped 
or cut out cloths for garments. All 
these several individuals, having no 
particular surname, took or received 
one from the occupation they tem- 
porarily followed. "Privy Purse Ep- 
enses. Eliz. of York," p. 122. 

This was not enough, for in com- 
mon parlance it was not likely the 
full name would be used. Besides 
there might lie two, or even three. 
Johns in the same family. So late 
as March 1545. the will of John 
Parvell de Gynton runs : 

"Alice my wife, and Did John, my 
son, to occupy my farm together, 
till 1)1,1,' John Marries; Young John, 
my son, shall have Brenlay's land, 
plowed and sowed at Old John's cost." 
The register of Raby, Leicestershire, 
' ■ this entry: 
"1559. Item: 20th day of August 

was John, and John Picke, the 

children of Xtopher and Anne 

baptized. 



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"Item: the 31s August the same John 

and John were buried" 

Mr. Burn who quotes these in- 
stances in his "History of Parish 
Registers" adds that at this same 
time "One John Barker had thre< 
sons named John Barker and two 
daughters named Margaret Barker" 
[Foot note says any number of such 
ances might he recorded]. If 
the same family had but one name 
for the household, we may imagine 
the difficulty when this one name was 
also popular throughout the village. 
The difficulty was naturally solved 
by, firstly, the adoption of Nick 
forms; secondly the addition of pet 
desinences. 'I hus Emma became by 
the one practice -imple Emm, by the 
other Emmott; and any number of 
hoys in a small community might be 
entered in the [Parish] register as 
Bartholomew, and yet preserve their 
individuality in work-a-day life by 
bearing such names as Bat, Bate, 
Baity. Bartle, Bartelot, Batcock, Bat- 
kin, and Tolly, or Tholy. In a word, 
these forms of Bartholomew were 
treated as so many separate proper 
names. 



I" -peak of William & John is 
to speak of a race & rivalry 800 
years old. In Domesday [Book] 
there were 68 Williams, 48 Roberts, 
28 Walters, to 10 Johns. Robert 
Montensis asserts that in 1173 at a 
court feast of Henry TI. Sir William 
St. John and Sir William Fitz- 
Hamon bade none but those who 
bore the name of William to appear. 
There were present 120 Williams, 
all Knights. In Edward I's reie,n 
John came forward. In a Wiltshire 
document containing 588 names, 92 are 
William, 88 John, 55 Richard, 48 
Robert, 23 Roger, Geoffrey, Ralph, 
and Peter 16. A century later John 
was first. In 1347 out of 133 com- 



mon Council men for London, first 
convened, 35 were John, 17 William, 
15 Thomas (St. Thomas of Canter- 
bury was now an institution). 10 
Richard, 8 Henry, 8 Robert. In 1385 
the guild of St. George of Norwich 
contained 377 names. Of these Joh i 
engrossed no less than 128, William 
47, Thomas 41. 

The Reformation and the Puritan 
Commonwealth for a time darkened 
the fortunes of John &• William, but 
the Protestanl accession befriended 
the latter, and now [1880] as 800 
years ago William is first and John 
second. 

P.nt when we come to realize that 
nearly one third of Englishmen were 
known either by the name of William 
or John about the year 1300, it will 
be seen that the pet name and nick 
n were no freak hut a necessity. 
We dare not attempt a catagory hut 
the surnames of today tell us much. 
Will was quite a distinct youth from 
Willot, Willol from W'ilmot, Wilmol 
from Wilkin and Wilkin from Wil- 
cock. There might he a half dozen 
Johns about the farmstead, hut it 
mattered little so long as one was 
called Jack, another Jenning, a third 
Jenkin, a fourth Jackcock (now Ja- 
COX'as a surname) a fifth Brown- 
john and a sixth Micklejohn or Lit- 
tlejohn or Properjohn (i.e. well built 
or handsome ). 

The nick forms are still familiar 
in many instances, though almost 
entirely confined to such names as 
have descended from that day to 
the present. We still talk of Bob, 
and Tom, and Hick and Jack. The 
introduction of Bible names, at the 
Reformation did them much harm. 
But the Reformation and the English 
Bible combined utterly overwhelmed 
the pet desinences, and they suc- 
cumbed. 



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SAMUEL 2 READ (JOHN 1 ) OF MENDON 

WILL, 1717. SUFFOLK CO. REG. PROBATE 



In the name of God Amen, Fifth 
of Aprill in the year of our Lord 
Seventeen hundred & Seventeen, I 
Samuel Read of Mendon in the Coun- 
\ of Suffolk in the Province of the 
Massachusetts Bay in New England, 
being aged and Lame of Body, hut of 
Perfect memory thanks he to the 
Lord, minding the uncertainty of this 
Transitory life and desiring to settle 
that estate that God has blessed me 
with all, Do make this my last Will 
and Testament. In manner and form 
following, and First desiring of God 
my Father pardon of all my --ins 
past, commit my Soul to him through 
Jesus Christ my Saviour and Re- 
deemer, and my Body to decent 
Burial, and for the settling of my 
Temporal Estate, Do order, give and 
heqttcath and dispose of the same in 
manner and form following. 

First, I will that my Debts and 
Funeral . Expenses be truly paid by 
my executors herein after named. 

Item. 1 give and bequeath unto my 
elde-t sun Samuel Read hi-- heirs 
and assigns forever as an addition 
'ii what 1 have already given him by 
1 >eed, the remainder of my meadow- 
lying upon both --ides of the West 
river that was laid out to my Acre 
Home lot, as it is bounded upon 
the Towns Records, and all my 
Land and Meadow on both sides 
Mumford River, lying on the North 
side of the Country Road 'o Wood- 
stock and also fifty acres of my fifth 
Division of Land- laid out near 
Shoconog Brook as is Recorded in 
the Town Record for Mendon, and 
also a ten acre right in all future 
Divisions, which will make up to him 
and complete a Thirty Acre Lot with 
what T have formerly given him by 
I >< d wih all the Rights and Privil- 
eges thereto belonging or appertain- 
ing with all the Divisions thereto be- 
longing. 



Item. I give & bequeath to my 
two eldest grandsons, Vizt, Samuel 
Read son of Samuel Read, and John 
Read son of Ebenezer Read each of 
them one Gun. 

Item. I give and bequeath to my 
Youngesl son Ebenezer Read bis 
heirs and assigns forever as an addi- 
tion to what I have already given 
him by Deed, all my Land and Mea- 
dow which is not contained in his 
Deed lying upon the West side of 
the West River between the County 
Road and ^amuel Reads Bridge 
over the said River, the whole Land 
and Meadow being bounded North- 
erly upon the Land of Samuel 
Read by a line of marked Trees, 
Westerly upon a Town Highway or 
Common, and Southerly upon the 
County Road, and Easterly upon the 
aforesaid West River,, and also. 
Twelve acres of Land lying upon 
Mumford River, which I purchased 
of Samuel Read by the place called 
the South Road; also that Land of 
mine on the east side of Mumford 
River on the South side the County 
Road as it is bounded on the Town 
Record ; and also Twenty five acres 
of Land on the West side the Great 
River below James Emersons Land 
as Recorded in the Town Records; 
also Two acres of meadow at Sho- 
conog, at the North end of my mea- 
dow i here, and a five acre Right in 
all future Division-- which will make 
up to him with what I have given 
him by Heed a Twenty Acre Lot 
with all the Rights and Privileges be- 
longing in all the Divisions of it. 

Item. I give and bequeath unto 
my Son-in-Law Seth Chapin as an 
addition to what I have formerly 

en to my Daughter Mary Chapin, 
I )eren-ed forty shillings. 

Item. 1 give and bequeath to my 
Grand Laughter Hopestill Read five 
pounds ten shillings. 



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Item. I give and bequeath to my 
Maid Ann Chanery her time at my 
decease or five pounds if she serve 
out her time fail li fully with me. 

Finally, I give and bequeath unto 
my Two Sons, Samuel Read and 
Ebenezer Read, the remainder of My 
Land and Moveable Estate and to 
their Heirs, to be equally divi 
between them and their children 

If either of them dye before it be 
divided, and by these pre ents 1 ap 
point, ordain and constitute my Two 
Sons, Samuel and. Ebenezer Read to 
he my executors of this my last Will 
to see the same performed and Li 
cies payed, ratifying this to he my 
last Will and no other. 

In Witness whereof I have set 
my hand and Seal the day and year 
above written [5th April' 17171 In 
the Third year of the Reign of our 
Soveraign, Lord George, id Great 
Britain, France and Ireland, King 
Defender of the Faith &c. 

Samuel Read (si \i ■ 

Signed, Si win. Published, and De- 
clared by the said Samuel Read thai 
the writing on the other side was his 
last Will and Testament. 
In presence of us, Thomas Thayer, 
John Joanes, Ephraim Chapin. 

Examined p. John Boydell I- 1 
[Will dated 5th Apr. 1717. proved 
13 Mar. 1717/18] 



INVENTORY 

A true Inventory of all and Sin- 
gular the Goods, Chattels and Credits 
of Samuel Reap Deceased as fol- 
loweth : 

Mendon January 27th. 1717. 
Imprs. His Cash and apparel£80. 7." 

To Books 1.16." 

To Beds, Bedding, Furniture 

and Bedsteads 39 " " 

To Tables and Table Linnen 2.11 ' 
To Arms and Staff Belts ... 1.10 " 
To Pewter 4. 2 " 



In I Srass, Iron. Tin, Wooden 
Vessels — Tramels, I [and- 
irons, Tongs Fireslice ... 9. 5 
To ( hests, i lhairs, Smooth- 
ing Iron, Joynt Stool, To 
Wool. Woolen ('loath and 
yarn, Spinning wheels .... 5. 1 
To Two 1 buses 12. " 

To 4 t 'i iw- and one heifer 16 
To 1 louse and Barn, orchard 

and Thirt) four acres land 1.60 
fo < hit Lands and Me idows 60 " " 



6391.12.00 
Apprized By, 

i I omas White. Samuel Moor, John 
Tiller. 

Suffolk ss. 

By the Honble Samuel Sewall Esqr. 
Judge of Probate &c. 
Samuel Read and Ebenezer Read 
Executors made oath that this in- 
ventory amounting to Three Hundred 
and Ninety One Pounds and twelve 
shillings, is a true and perfect Inven- 
tors of the Estate of their Father 
Samuel Read of Mendon Deceased, 
and that more hereafter appear, they 
will cause it to be added & shown 
before me. 

Samuel Sewall 
J. Probate 
Boston March 13, 1717 Examined 
p. John Boydell, Regr. 

COMMENT 

Samuel" Read (son of John 1 of 
Rehoboth see Reade Record No: 
V.) was a noted townsman in Men- 
dan, and Inn Keeper. Made free- 
man < let. 15. 1673 and Constable in 
1681. Me married twice. 

I 1 ) at Rehoboth 10 May 1668 
llopestill Holhrook who d. in Men- 
do,, 12 Jan. 1705/6 

(2) Hannah (whose maiden name 
is desired) who d. in Mendon 24 Ian. 
1716/17. 

Children by Wife Hopestill 

Samuel 3 b M. (1) 

Deborah Chapin 8 July 169.? 



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M. (2) Abigail White 7 Jan 1703/4 
Mary 3 b. M. Seth Chapin 20 May 1689. 
Ebenezer b. M. Sarah Chapin 7. Feb. 

1703/4. 
[From note honk of late George S. 
Stewart] 

"He [Samuel" of Mendon] is the an- 
cestor of the Mendon, Uxbridge, 
Northbridge, Milford, Oxford and 
Charlton. Reeds." 
(Hist. Reed Fam. 1861. p. 194.) 

—A. H. R.— 



OBEDIAH READ 2 (ESDRASD 
Housewright Boston 

See Will, Reade Record No. V 

Born Salem 1640, d. Boston 19 Feb. 
1721/22 in 82nd year. 

He m. ( 1 ) Dorchester 19 Aug. 1664 
Anna Swift who d. Boston 13 Sept. 
1680 ae 33. 

Children n. Boston : 

1. Elizabeth 3 b. 29 Mar. 1669, d. 
m. 6, July 1691, Samuel Durham. 

2. Sarah 3 b. 16 Apr. 1671 d. young. 



3. ANNA 3 b. 3 Felx 1672/3, d. 

m. (1)2 Jan 1700 Samuel En«s. 
m (2) 28 Sept. 1711 Wm. Higam- 
botham. 

4. Thomas 3 bp. 26 Sept. 1675, 2nd 
Ch. "Marriner" 

m. 1 Mar. 1707 Mary Fifield.? 

5. Obadiah 3 b. 29 Nov. 1677 d. 
Young. 

6. James 3 b. 29 Feb. 1679/80. d. 
m. Elizabeth — 

lie m. (2) Boston (1682) Eliza- 
beth Broughton who (1. Buston 26 
Feb. 1712/13 ae 67. 

Children b. Boston : 

7. Obadiah 3 b. 27 Mar. 1683 

m. 13 Apr. 1710 [ane Perkins. 

8. Mary 8 b. 4 May 1684 

m. 20 May 1715 Thomas Miller 

9. Nathaniel 3 b. 23 Aug. 1686 .1. 
young. 

10. Sarah 3 b. 26 Jan. 1687/8 

m. 5 |uly 1713 Richard "Henges." 



The above taken from the Note 
Book of the late George S. Stewart, 
former Genealogist of the Reade So- 
ciety. (See also Esdras' Hist. Reed 
Fam." p. 151. & Reade Rec. No. E V.) 



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HONORARY MEMBERS OF THE READE SOCIETY 



Re mi. Com. Albert Cushing, U. S. N. 

Washington, D. C. 
Read, Arthur William Leicester, Eng. 

Bead, Sie C. Hercules Bart. London, Eng. 
President Royal Archasological Society 



Reade 


, Al.KVN LYELI. 




I 


Lverpool 


Eng 




Died Nov. 


5, 


1923 






Reed, 


J. Russell 






Boston, 


Mass 


Reed, 


Alanson Henri 




Brookllne, 


Mass 




Died Jan. 


8. 


1924 







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Andrews, Mrs. Ella R. 
Andrews, Fletcher R, 
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G rich, .Mrs. Ella R. 

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Lark in, Mrs. Prances H. 

i s. Mils. M.mish ll i. ( !. 
Marden, Mrs. Harriet a R. 
McNicOL, Mils. BERN ICE E. R. 

Jewett I'm Conn 
Mouse, Willard s. 
Morss, Mils. Everett 
Morton. Mrs. Florem e E 



New York, N. Y. 

Cleveland Hgts., O. 

Lawrence, Mass, 

Roxbury, Mr. 

Hartford, Conn. 

Poxboro, Mass. 

Buffalo, N. 1 

'. New V.Tk. X. V. 

The Dalles, Ore. 



K 



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Read, Charles F. 
Ufa i i. Benjamin S. 
Read, Miss Clara a. 
Read, Edmund s. 
Read, Miss Ella H. 
Read, Franklin F. 2nd 
Read, George b. 
Re mi. i 'i'M George it. 
Ri m. George w. 
Read, Henry m. 
Re vn. Tames A. 
Re mi. Joseph E. 
i:i id, Hon. Joseph 
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R] ID, Miss M via: VRE'T II 

rim Melbourne S 
in- vi'. Newbury f. 



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Yuri, Village, Me. 

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Cleat Barrington, Mass 

Taunton, 

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Erie. B. I'. 

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Newark. N. J. 

New York. N Y 

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New York. N. Y. 



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Joseph f. 

Ill auk. Miss CHBISTIA M. 
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Reed, Alanson H. 
Reed, Alanson L. 

REED, Miss Anna M. 

Reed. Charles W. 

Reed, Edgab 

Reed, Miss Ellen a. 

Reed, Henry B. 

Reed, i [or itio M. 

Reed, Db, J vmks ii. 

Held. James R. 

Klin. Jon N E. 
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vi irion b. 
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v, Hampton I. Altadena, Cal. 

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Wells, Wellington Boston, Mass 



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lies Moines, Iowa 

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Lombard, ill. 

New York, N. Y. 

Boston, Mass 

Biltmore, N. C. 

Philadelphia, I'a. 

Boston, Mass. 

Worcester. 

New Haven, 
Auburndale, 

New Ynl'k 

Boston, Mass. 

Pasadena, Cal. 

File. pa. 

Boston. Mass. 

Columbus, ". 

Lowell, Mass. 

Boise, 

New York. 
Boston, 



Mass 

Conn. 
Mass 
N V 



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Mass 



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Bankhage, Human R. 
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Barns, Mrs Clara E. 
Blackman, Homer B. 
Brightman, Miss Eva St. 
Champion, William J. 
Clarke. ARTHUR F 
Clarke, Helen G. 
Burns, Habry l. 

CAESON, Mrs RACHEL F. 

Brimmer, Mrs. Mary a C 
Cooper, Mrs, Caroline S 
Ciheland, Miss Maria a. 
Corey. Charles R. 
Durgin, Dr. E. H. 
Dusky, Mrs. Isabel S 
Fi.wei.i.. Mrs Cynthia R. S. 
Estey. Mrs. Lai.a Reed 
Fare, Mrs Virginia II. 
Field. J. HOWARD 
Fletcher, Harry G. West 
FOOTE, Mrs. Emma B. 
Frazer, Mrs Ida C. 
Geer, Mrs Nettie R. 
GlPSON, Mrs Jeannette 



ii.vrman. Mrs. George C 
Heistis. Frank R. 



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i lenver, I !olo 

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1 ,i -in inster, Mass 

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R. 

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keon. Mrs. Catherine R. W. 

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Madden, Mrs. Josephine R. 
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Mason, Mrs. ELIZABETH V. 
Merrow. Mrs. Rena M. 
Nead, Mrs, Rose W. 
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Atlanta. Ga, 

Maiden, Mass 

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Somerville, Mass 

Avon Lake, <>. 

s. 



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Perry, David C 
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Proity, Mrs. Mary R. 
I: v v viiiMi, Daniel V. 
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Read. Mrs. Bertha c. F. 



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Mass 


Brookl iin'. 


Mass 


Brookllne, 


Mass 


R. Medford, 


M-.ss. 


Louisville. Ky 


I.awrein '■. 


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Mass 


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Ma.i. Gen. C. <; 
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Dr. Jay M. 
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III; G. W. 

Hubert 
Josiah T. 

Alans. i\ <: 
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Al BERT ATHER' 

Albert M. 
Albert V. 
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Charles II. 
Mks Charles 
Chester N. 
Clarence D. 
David F. 
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Edward D. 
Edward M. 
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Ervin E. 
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Franklin L. 
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M. Lexington. Va. 

San Francisco, Cal. 

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East Orange, N. J. 

Winnipeg, Maui. 

Lombard, III. 

Cleveland, I ). 

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Manchester, Vt, 

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Boston, Mass. 

Cambridge, Mass. 

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Boise, Idaho 

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Cohasset, Mass. 

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Harry L. 
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Homer .1 
John II 
John Warner 



1". rook line 

Brookline 

Auburn, 

Leah Cambridge, 

< !anandaigua, 

Amenia, No 



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Mass. 
X. Y. 

Mass. 

X Y. 

Dak. 



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Kit d, \\" 1 I.I [AM I.. 
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i 'l,. v . 'land. ii. 

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New York, X. Y. 

Now Brunswick, X. J 

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Va ocouver, B. C. 

Springfield, Mass. 

K. Sousalito, I'al 

Mich. 



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Bloomiugton, 111 
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FRIDAY: BLONDY IS IN LOVE WITH 
A WIDOW WHO l£ RICH,AND PROUD 
OF HER ANCESTRY. LAST NIGHT 
HE TOOK ME TO .SEE HER AND 
TOLD ME TO PUT IN A GOO D WORD 
FOR HIM 



WELL, SHE SHOWED US 
HE"R ANCESTRAL PORTRAITS 
AND THINGS - . 




THEN SHE SAID TO ME : ' HOW" 
PAR CAN YOU TRACE YOUR- 
ANCESTRY, MR. DIPPY?" 
"NOT FAR.," SAID I. "BUT 
MY FRIEND BLONDY CAN. HIS 
GREAT-GRAN DFATHEF2. WAS 
CASHIER, IN A NEW YORK BANK, 



AND THEY TRACED HIM 
AS FAR AS CHINA, BUT 
HE GOT AWAY! " 




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